The IDF successfully recovered Thai hostage Nattapong Pinta's body from Rafah in a joint operation with Shin Bet, two days after retrieving American-Israeli hostages. The 26-year-old agricultural worker, kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, leaves behind a wife and seven-year-old son in Thailand.
Media coverage then shifted to investigating whether Mohammed Sinwar's body was found among ten terrorist corpses in tunnels beneath Khan Younis' European Hospital. By evening, Hamas escalated psychological warfare by releasing a photograph of hostage Matan Zangauker receiving a blood transfusion, claiming IDF forces were besieging his location and threatening his life after 610 days in captivity.
The military also eliminated Asaad Abu Shakriya, head of the Salafi terror group responsible for murdering the Bibas family. Names of two additional soldiers killed in yesterday's Khan Younis building explosion were cleared for publication: Staff Sergeant Tom Rotstein and Sergeant Major Uri Yehonatan Cohen, bringing the total fatalities to four.