The second hostage whose body was recently recovered from Gaza has been identified as that of Idan Shtivi, the Israel Defense Forces said on Saturday, a day after naming Ilan Weiss as the other captive brought back in a joint IDF and Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) operation.

Shtivi was 28 on Oct. 7, 2023 when Hamas terrorists murdered him after he acted to rescue and evacuate attendees from the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel. His body was abducted from the Tel Gama area in the northwestern Negev. His name was publicized after the identification process was completed at the Institute of Forensic Medicine.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Shtivi “courageous” in a statement published by his office on Saturday, expressing sympathy for his fa

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