IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stated an preliminary evaluation indicated that the hostages had been “brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly earlier than we reached them.”
The IDF named the victims as Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Master Sergeant Ori Danino.
After the loss of life of Goldberg-Polin, an American citizen, was confirmed, U.S. President Joe Biden stated he was “devastated and outraged” by the information.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog stated the “coronary heart of a complete nation is shattered to items with the information” of the killings.
There was no fast remark from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A gaggle representing the households of these held hostage in Gaza, the Hostages Families Forum, has demanded that Netanyahu “deal with the nation and take duty for abandoning the hostages.” The group stated that each one six captives had been “murdered in the previous few days, after surviving virtually 11 months of abuse, torture, and hunger in Hamas captivity,” the BBC reported.