22:42 (19:42)⇢Hostage Body Retrieved After 614 Days
⌨The newspapers report on the IDF successfully recovering the body of Yair Yaakov, a 59-year-old hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz, after 614 days in Gaza through a military operation (13tv, Davar, Haaretz, INN, Israel Hayom, Kan, Maariv, Mako, n12, now14, Srugim, Times, Ynet, Kipa, walla). Yaakov was killed while defending his safe room door on October 7th, while his partner Mirav Tal and two sons Or and Yagil were kidnapped and later released in the first hostage exchange. His son Yagil wrote on social media expressing hope that remaining hostages would be brought back through a deal that doesn't endanger soldiers. Netanyahu thanked the IDF fighters for the operation, which also recovered another unidentified fallen hostage's body from southern Gaza based on intelligence from detained Gazans.