The remains of a Thai agriculture worker who was kidnapped by terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, were recovered in a special operation carried out in Rafah by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the two defense bodies announced in a joint statement on Saturday.
Nattapong Pinta, 36, was abducted “with some of his friends” from Kibbutz Nir Oz, situated near the Gaza Strip border, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a separate statement.
It further confirmed that he was murdered shortly after the war broke by the Mujahideen Brigades (“Kataeb al-Mujahideen”), a Palestinian terrorist organization that was also responsible for the murder at Nir Oz of Judi Weinstein-Haggai and Gadi Haggai and then carrying their bodies to Gaza (the IDF recovered their remains two d