A 25-year-old Portuguese woman who was studying in Tel Aviv and was reported missing after the Hamas attack on Israel on Saturday was found dead this Tuesday, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Rotem Neumann had been missing for at least three days when her body was found.
The death was confirmed by his cousin Tomer Neumann, the AP added.
This young woman of Portuguese nationality was at the Teva festival, a musical event near the border with Gaza that was invaded by militants in the early hours of Saturday.
The Palestinian Islamic group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory this Saturday, called Operation “Al-Aqsa Storm”, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air.
In response to the surprise attack, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air, in an operation it called “Iron Swords.”
During the incursion into Israeli territory, Hamas took more than a hundred civilian and military hostages, which they took to the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s military response, which declared war on Hamas following the attack, led to the deaths of more than 900 people in Gaza, according to the most recent reports.
On the Israeli side, a senior military officer said the death toll exceeded 1,000.
Source: TSF
