IDF Recovers Bodies of 3 Hostages Slain on Oct. 7

By Yoni Weiss

The IDF announced Friday that it has recovered the bodies of three more hostages from the northern Gaza Strip in an overnight operation. Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, Hanan Yablonka, 42, and Michel Nisenbaum, 59, Hy”d, were all killed on Oct. 7, according to new “reliable intelligence” discovered amid the ongoing war.

The bodies of the three were kidnapped from the Mefalsim area, the IDF reported, the same location where Hamas terrorists murdered and abducted four other hostages whose bodies were recovered last week from a tunnel in Jabaliya. Hernández Radoux was a Mexican-French national. Both he and Yablonka, had been at the music event near Re’im when attacked by Hamas terrorists.

Nisenbaum, from Sderot, was also killed near Mefalsim. He had been driving to the Gaza Division’s base near Re’im to collect his granddaughter. The bodies of the three hostages were recovered in a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet, following precise intelligence obtained recently.

After identification at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, their families were notified.