The Israeli army retrieved from Gaza the remains of a hostage who was murdered following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in the second such return in a week.

Nattapong Pinta had not previously been confirmed dead, but he was one of three hostages whom Israel recently indicated that it believed were no longer alive . His body was found in Rafah after soldiers acted on information they got during an interrogation; Israeli officials said he had been abducted alive and murdered in Gaza early in the war.

He is survived by a wife, Narissara, and a young son, Wirapat, who live in Thailand.

Pinta was one of 31 Thai farmworkers abducted on Oct. 7 from kibbutzes where they were part of a robust immigrant workforce assisting on Israeli farms; he had been working on Kibbutz Nir Oz, w

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