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Israel now took over 3 coffins from Red Cross, PM's office said

2025-11-03

[X] Place your bets, ladies and gents: How many parts per coffin, how many bodies those parts come from, and will any of those parts belong to an actual hostage? The only saving grace to this exercise is that Israel’s Abu Kabir forensic institute has done this so often since 10/7 that we should have answers within hours.

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Israel now took over 3 coffins from Red Cross, PM's office said https://t.co/CRuLUyYLdc
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 2, 2025

Courtesy of badanov:

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet Security Service (Shabak) confirms the receipt of the bodies of three hostages killed in the Gaza Strip
[Regnum] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet Security Service (Shabak) confirmed the receipt of the bodies of three hostages killed in the Gaza Strip. The IDF Spokesperson's Office reported this on November 2.

"According to information provided by the Red Cross, three coffins containing deceased hostages have been transferred to their custody and are on their way to IDF forces in the Gaza Strip," the agency said in a statement.

The statement emphasized that Hamas is obligated to comply with the agreements reached and to take all necessary steps to return all the bodies of the deceased hostages remaining in its possession.

Israel launched military operations in the Gaza Strip in October 2023 after Hamas militants attacked Jewish settlements along the border, killing people and taking hostages. In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory recognized Tel Aviv's actions as genocide.

As of 7 p.m. ET Sunday:

Trump reveals one of three bodies transferred to Israel is of American-Israeli soldier Omer Neutra
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump reveals that one of the three bodies of hostages returned on Sunday night by Hamas to Israel was that of American-Israeli soldier Omer Neutra.

The New York native’s parents have confirmed the matter.

Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he spoke to the couple following the news.

“They’re thrilled inn one sense, but in another sense, obviously, it’s not too great,” Trump says. “We’re very happy to have done it.”

More from the Times of Israel:

Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra, 21, a tank platoon commander in the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion, from New York, was killed on October 7 while battling the Hamas invasion of southern Israel, and his body taken captive. His tank was attacked by Hamas terrorists with RPG fire and explosive devices. Neutra and two others in the tank were killed in the attack, and their bodies taken to Gaza, while soldier Nimrod Cohen was abducted alive to the Strip.

Footage of Gazans standing around the burning tank and celebrating, and dragging Nimrod Cohen out from inside, became some of the most haunting footage for Israelis in the wake of October 7.

Omer’s family did not know of his fate for more than a year, until in December 2024, Israeli authorities confirmed that he had been killed on October 7 and his body taken hostage. His family sat shiva, the seven-day mourning period, but did not hold a funeral.

He is survived by his parents, Orna and Ronen, and his younger siblings Daniel, Keren, Or and Leah.

According to a Hamas statement, the hostages’ bodies were recovered earlier Sunday from a tunnel. In the statement, the group published a picture showing a body bag with the name of a deceased hostage on it, while the other two were not named.

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