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Hamas Executes Six Israeli Hostages in Rafah, IDF Returns Remains to Families
September 1, 2024

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on September 1 that the bodies of six murdered Israelis were discovered in a tunnel below Rafah. The IDF found the deceased hostages approximately one kilometer away from the location where the IDF rescued Israeli hostage Farhan al-Qadi alive earlier in the week. According to the IDF, the six hostages were executed by Gaza terrorist shortly before the IDF reached them. The slain hostages are Israeli-American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, and Israeli citizens Carmel Gat, 40, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Alexander Lubnov, 32, Almog Sarusi, 27, and Ori Danino, 25. So far, at least nine Israeli hostages have been discovered by the IDF in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town that abuts Gaza’s border with Egypt. READ MORE

JNS UN Secretary-General Guterres slammed over ‘crocodile tears’ for news Hamas killed six hostages “Won’t even say ‘Hamas.’ Won’t condemn the terror group that took Hersh, held him hostage for 330 days and murdered him,” wrote AIPAC. “Says it all.”

JPOST IDF finds tunnel shaft where bodies of hostages were found in a children’s yard The IDF found the shaft to the tunnel in which the bodies of the hostages were found Saturday in a children’s yard…The bodies were found only one kilometer from where Kaid Farhan al-Alkadi, age 52, from Rahat, was found last week. Since Alkadi was found, the IDF put out instructions to be extra careful in the area, but it is possible that Hamas killed the six, knowing that the military was close by…

ARUTZ SHEVA Hamas releases footage of hostages who were murdered in captivity
Hamas published footage in which Alexander Lobanov and Carmel Gat, who were murdered last week, beg Israelis to protest for their release.

FREE PRESS Bari Weiss: Dark Tunnels and Moral Beacons The names of the six murdered Israeli hostages—and the evil ideology of their executioners—should be seared into the minds of all who wish to live in civilization.