TEL AVIV. Israel announced on Saturday that it retrieved the body of Nattapong Pinta, a Thai hostage abducted during the October 7 Hamas-led attack that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza. The military said Pinta’s remains were recovered from the Rafah area in southern Gaza, while the health ministry in Gaza reported that at least 95 people have been killed in the past 24 hours.
Pinta, who had come to Israel for agricultural work, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz and killed early in the conflict, according to Israeli authorities. Thailand’s foreign ministry confirmed that the bodies of two other Thai citizens remain unrecovered. Thais have made up the largest group of foreign hostages taken during the war, many of whom lived near the southern Israeli kibbutzim and towns that were attacked. Forty-six Thai nationals have died in the war, the ministry said.
The army said Pinta was seized by the Mujahideen Brigades, a small militant group that also captured Israeli-American hostages Judih Weinstein and Gad Haggai, whose bodies were found on Thursday. On Saturday, Israel’s military said it killed As’ad Aby Sharaiya, the leader of the Mujahideen Brigades, in Gaza City.
Fifty-five hostages remain in Gaza, with Israel stating that more than half of them are already dead. Families of the hostages rallied again Saturday evening in Israel, urging the government to pursue a ceasefire deal to bring everyone home.
Meanwhile, Hamas issued a rare warning about another hostage, Matan Zangauker, saying that Israeli forces had surrounded the area where he is being held and that any harm that came to him during a rescue attempt would be Israel’s responsibility. The military did not immediately respond to this warning.
“The decision to expand the military ground maneuver is at the cost of Matan’s life and the lives of all the hostages,” said Zangauker’s mother, Einav, during the rally in Tel Aviv.
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