Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] 53-year-old father of two was slain by Hamas near Mefalsim; the body was returned to Israel Thursday along with three others previously announcedThe Israel Defense Forces announced on Saturday evening that soldiers had recovered the body of an additional hostage from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip, after the announcement the previous day that three slain captives had been returned in a special mission.
The hostage was named as Ron Benjamin, 53, who was kidnapped by Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...holy warriors on the morning of October 7 while returning home from a planned bike ride near the Gaza border, which he canceled when rocket sirens sounded at 6:30 a.m. as Hamas’s attack began.
It is now known that Benjamin was killed near Kibbutz Mefalsim on the day of the attack, and his body was taken to Gaza, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a statement to the press.
His body was recovered during an overnight operation on Thursday, along with the bodies of Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, and Shani Louk, all of whom the IDF said were killed by Hamas inside Israel on October 7, and their bodies kidnapped. All four were recovered in northern Gaza, according to the IDF.
The efforts to recover their bodies had "been ongoing for a long time," Hagari said on Friday, and some of the intelligence for the operation came from Paleostinian terror suspects captured by the IDF and interrogated by the Shin Bet.
The military had not initially planned to announce the recovery of three hostages on Friday, as it had preferred to wait until the operation concluded. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
due to a flurry of rumors spreading on social media about the operation, it was decided to release some information, including the names of the hostages found.
Until recently, Benjamin, like Gelerenter and Buskila, had been presumed to be alive, while Louk had been confirmed dead in late October after a piece of her skull was identified following widely shared footage of holy warriors kidnapping her.
On the morning of October 7, Benjamin set out to meet up with friends for a bike ride near Kibbutz Be’eri, but amid the cascading rockets, he decided to turn around and head home to Rehovot. He spoke with his wife, Ayelet, and at 7:30 a.m. he left a message for one of his two daughters. He never returned home.
For two months following the October 7 attacks, Benjamin was considered missing, and his family was told they may never find out what happened to him, as there were no initial leads on whether he had been killed or kidnapped. On December 2, however, the IDF informed the family that he was indeed taken to Gaza.
Last week, amid rehearsals for the Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony, Benjamin’s daughter, Shai Benjamin, handcuffed herself to the gates of Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery in protest of the event.
"It seems absurd to me to hold a ceremony celebrating the State of Israel when there are 132 hostages in Gaza whom the country is abandoning right now," she said. "My father has not seen the light of day for seven months."
Idiot girl — instead of complaining, notice that it was the IDF that found your father’s body, because Hamas had collected him for selling to advantage later.
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Kibbutz Mefalsim: 2018-06-28 IDF shoots, wounds 3 terrorists breaching Gaza border
Kibbutz Mefalsim: 2018-06-14 IDF fires at Gazans preparing incendiary kite to send into Israel