Three Israeli captives, whose bodies were discovered last year in underground tunnels in Gaza, were most mostlikely eliminated in a military airstrike aimed at a Hamas leader, an examination into their deaths concluded.
An examination into the deaths of Nik Beizer, 19, Ron Sherman, 19, and Elia Toledano, 28, discovered there was a “high possibility” that the captives were eliminated “as a outcome of a by-product of an IDF airstrike” targeting Hamas Northern Brigade leader Ahmed Ghandour, the Israel Defense Forces stated Sunday. The 3 captives were being held in a tunnel where Ghandour was operating when the military struck on Nov. 10, according to the IDF. Their bodies were discovered in a Hamas tunnel complex on Dec. 14, and the examination into their deaths concluded in current days.
“At the time of the strike, the IDF did not have info about the existence of captives in the targeted substance,” the military stated.
The IDF stated that it was a “high likelihood” evaluation however that it was “not possible to definitively figureout” the cause of the 3 captives’ deaths. Its evaluation is based on a number of elements, consistingof intelligence reports, the area of where their bodies were discovered, an analysis of the strike and conclusions from the Forensic Medicine Institute.
“The IDF shares in the sorrow of the households over the ravaging loss and will continue to accompany them,” the IDF included.
Both Beizer and Sherman w