HY”D: Bodies of Three More Hostages Rescued From Gaza

The Israel Defense Forces has recovered the bodies of three more hostages from the northern Gaza Strip in an overnight operation, the military announces.

Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, and Hanan Yablonka, 42, and Michel Nisenbaum, 59, were all killed on October 7, according to new “reliable intelligence” discovered amid the war, the military says. Until recently, there had been no information as to their status, and were therefore believed to be alive.

The bodies of the three were kidnapped from the Mefalsim area, according to the IDF, at the same location where Hamas terrorists murdered and abducted four more hostages whose bodies were recovered last week from a tunnel in Jabaliya.

Hernández Radoux, a Mexican-French national, was the boyfriend of Shani Louk, one of the four hostages found in Jabaliya last week. Hernández Radoux and Yablonka — along with Louk and two more hostages recovered last week — were at the Supernova music festival near the border community of Re’im when it was attacked by Hamas terrorists.

They had fled to the Mefalsim area where they were murdered and kidnapped.

Nisenbaum, from Sderot, was also killed next to Mefalsim with the other hostages. He had been driving to the Gaza Division’s base near Re’im to collect his granddaughter who had been staying with his non-commissioned officer son-in-law.

The IDF says the bodies of the three hostages were also recovered from the Jabaliya area, in a joint operation carried out by the military and Shin Bet, following the analysis of “precise intelligence” that had been found in recent days.

After the bodies were identified at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, their families were notified by military representatives, the IDF adds.