Three individuals under captivity, believed to have been lost in November, appear to have met their end due to aerial bombardments, as suggested by the Israeli military.
Three individuals believed to be casualties from the Gaza Strip incident in the autumn were presumably wiped out in an Israeli air assault, the military announced. An investigation hints that these individuals probably perished as unintended consequences of an Israeli army air assault.
The strike also led to the demise of Hamas commander Ahmed Ghandur, it was disclosed. According to the investigation, the hostages were housed in a network of tunnels, where Ghandur was present at the time of the onslaught. The military had no insights suggesting the hostages were there during the attack. Conversely, they had intel indicating the three were somewhere else.
The remains of the hostages, Nik Beizer, Ron Sherman, and Elia Toledano, were transported to Israel in December.
The Israeli military elaborated that their conclusions regarding the circumstances of their demises stemmed from "the positioning of their bodies in relation to the trajectory of the air assault, an assessment of the operation, intelligence data, the outcomes of autopsies, and the conclusions drawn by the Institute of Forensic Medicine."
The likelihood that the hostages met their end due to Israeli weaponry was "quite high" based on this evidence. However, the complete narrative surrounding their deaths remained unclear.
The military's investigation indicated that the three individuals weren't at the site of the air assault, implying they might have been among the three believed to be casualties from the Gaza Strip incident. Despite the air assault likely being responsible for the deaths of Nik Beizer, Ron Sherman, and Elia Toledano in December, the exact circumstances surrounding their demise remained uncertain.
