The Israeli army announced this Friday that it had found the body of soldier Noa Marciano, 19, a Hamas hostage in Gaza.
Marciano’s death was announced on Tuesday, a day after the Palestinian Islamist movement published information.
“The body of soldier Noa Marciano (…) was extracted by Israeli army troops from a structure adjacent to the Al Shifa hospital, in the Gaza Strip, and transferred to Israeli territory,” the army said in a statement.
On Monday, the Islamist movement circulated a photograph of dead Noa Marciano, describing her as “killed by an Israeli bombing.”
On October 7, Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the EU and the United States, bombed several of the group’s infrastructure in Gaza and imposed a total siege on the territory, cutting off water. . supplies, fuel and electricity.
Israeli bombings from air, land and sea caused more than 11,000 deaths, mostly civilians, in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas data.
Source: TSF
