Israel says it has retrieved body of kidnapped Thai hostage from Gaza

Israel says it has retrieved the assemblage of a Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza connected 7 October.

The premier minister's bureau said that the assemblage of Nattapong Pinta was returned to Israel "in a peculiar subject operation".

Mr Pinta, who had a woman and son, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz and killed successful captivity adjacent the commencement of the war, said the government. Thais were the largest radical of foreigners held captive by Hamas militants.

Israel's defence curate said that Pinta's assemblage was retrieved from the Rafah area. The 36-year-old went to Israel to enactment successful agriculture.

The Hostage Families Forum said successful a statement: "We basal with Nattapong's household contiguous and stock successful their grief. While the symptom is immense, his household volition yet person certainty aft 20 unspeakable and agonising months of devastating uncertainty.

"Every household deserves specified certainty to statesman their idiosyncratic healing journey.

"We emphasise erstwhile again that decision-makers indispensable bash everything indispensable to scope an statement that volition bring backmost each 55 remaining hostages - the surviving for rehabilitation and the deceased for due burial."

Fifty-five hostages stay successful Gaza, of whom Israel says much than fractional are dead.

On Thursday, Israel retrieved the bodies of Gad Haggai and Judi Weinstein Haggai, some of whom had Israeli and US citizenship.

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