A 25-year-old Portuguese woman who was studying in Tel Aviv and reported missing after the Hamas attack on Israel on Saturday was found dead on Tuesday, the Associated Press (AP) agency said.
Rotem Neumann had been missing for at least three days when her body was found.
His death was confirmed by his cousin, Tomer Neumann, the AP added.
This young woman of Portuguese nationality was at the Teva Festival, a music event near the Gaza border that was invaded by militants in the early hours of Saturday.
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on Saturday, dubbed 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 dubbed “Iron Swords”.
During the invasion of Israeli territory, Hamas took more than a hundred civilian and military hostages, who they took to the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s military response, which declared war on Hamas after the attack, caused the deaths of more than 900 people in Gaza, according to the latest reports.
On the Israeli side, a senior military official said the death toll was over 1,000.
Source: DN
