TEL AVIV — Israel said Saturday it had retrieved the body of a Thai hostage abducted to Gaza during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war against Hamas.

The prime minister’s office said Nattapong Pinta’s body was returned to Israel in a special military operation. Pinta was seized from Kibbutz Nir Oz and killed early in the war, the government said.

Thailand’s foreign ministry in a statement confirmed that the last Thai hostage in Gaza was confirmed dead. It said the bodies of two others are yet to be retrieved. Israel’s defense minister said Pinta’s body was retrieved from the Rafah area in southern Gaza. He had come to Israel to work in agriculture.

The news came two days after the bodies of two Israeli American hostages were retrieved. Fifty-five hostages remain in Gaza, an

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