(ANSA) – TEL AVIV, SEPTEMBER 15 – Ten months after the bodies of three hostages were recovered in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were killed indirectly during an attack that targeted the commander of Hamas’s Northern Gaza Brigade, Ahmed Ghandour, who was hiding in a tunnel in Jabaliya. On November 10, 2024, an IDF airstrike struck near the site where the bodies of Sergeant Ron Sherman, Corporal Nik Beizer, and civilian Elia Toledano, who was kidnapped at the Nova festival, were later found. “The results of the investigation suggest that the three, with high probability, were killed as a result of an airstrike during the assassination” of Ghandour, the IDF said. “This is a highly probable estimate, given all the data available, but it is not possible to establish with certainty the circumstances of their deaths,” the army said, following the results of intelligence and the conclusions of the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv. According to the investigation, the three hostages were prisoners in a tunnel complex where Ghandour operated, although at the time of the attack the army had no information on the hostages held in the area. (ANSA).
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