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..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...official said on Saturday that the terror group had recovered the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin, an IDF soldier who was killed and kidnapped by the terror group during the 2014 Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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disproportionate response...
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A senior officer in Hamas’s military wing was cited by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s Al Jazeera as saying that Goldin’s body had been located in an IDF-held area of southern Gaza’s Rafah. The source added that the bodies of six "deaders" — apparently referring to Hamas fighters — were also recovered.
In a video the terror group issued of the recovery, operatives pinned the name "Hadar Goldin" to a body bag dug out from the sands.
The terror group did not immediately announce its intention to return the body, which it has held for 4,117 days, to Israel.
An unnamed security source told the Ynet news outlet that there was a growing assessment in Israel that the body was indeed Goldin’s, but cautioned that further details were still needed. Israel is highly unlikely to make a conclusive assessment as to the identity before receiving the body for forensic testing.
PART OF A WIDER DEAL
A report on Channel 12 news indicated the subject of Goldin’s return could be more complicated than that of other hostages’ bodies, with Hamas tying the matter to Israel allowing 100-200 Hamas Death Eaters holed up in a tunnel under Israel-controlled Rafah safe passage in return — an issue which has been under debate for several days.
The United States has reportedly been pressuring Israel to allow the trapped terror operatives safe passage for Goldin’s return. According to a White House plan reported by Channel 12, after Goldin’s body is returned, the Death Eaters will surrender and hand over their arms, Israel will pardon them, and they will then go into exile or into the Hamas-controlled area of Gaza. The tunnel in which they are hiding will be destroyed, the network added.
Top White House advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner may come to Israel this week to close the deal, according to the report. Solving the episode under the terms of the US proposal would serve as a model for Hamas’s peaceful disarmament, an American official told the outlet.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously indicated he had no intention of making a deal regarding the trapped terror button men, with a Monday statement attributed to an "Israeli official" — often a euphemism for Netanyahu’s office — saying the premier "is not allowing safe passage for 200 Hamas terrorists."
The Hamas announcement that it had found Goldin’s body came hours after the Saudi al-Hadath newspaper reported that Hamas operatives and Red Thingy vehicles were heading to the Jenina neighborhood of Rafah to search for the body of one of the five deceased hostages still in Gaza.
Defense officials said earlier this week that Goldin’s body was being held in the area, although the IDF denied having any intelligence indicating that his remains were held with the trapped button men, and the Channel 12 report on Monday said they indeed apparently were not.
GOLDIN WAS KILLED IN A HAMAS BREACH OF 2014 CEASEFIRE
Givati fighter Goldin was killed and kidnapped during the 2014 war in Gaza, also known as Operation Protective Edge.
At 9:05 a.m. on August 1, 2014, just over an hour after the start of a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire in the war brokered by the UN and the US, Hamas button men emerged from a tunnel in the southeastern part of Rafah and attacked troops of the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, killing three soldiers, including Goldin — whose body was dragged by the terror operatives back into their tunnel.
The following day, the IDF announced that Goldin had been killed in combat before his abduction, and he was posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
Days earlier, Hamas had killed and kidnapped the body of Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul. Months later, the terror group would go on to capture two mentally unwell Israeli civilians who entered Gaza while in distress in two separate incidents, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed.
For almost a decade, until the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023, the four men — two slain soldiers and two live civilians — were the sole Israeli hostages held by Hamas, and their plight and their families’ struggle to bring them back often failed to garner significant public attention or government action.
Various indirect talks were held over the years, often with Egypt serving as an intermediary, but they failed to yield any results, as Hamas was reportedly demanding the mass release of Paleostinian security prisoners in exchange for the four men, and Israel was refusing to give in.
Goldin’s parents and his twin brother, Tzur, were at the forefront of the fight to recover the hostages, with Tzur establishing the Goldin Foundation to fight for their return.
After October 7, the foundation became the basis of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, the ad hoc organization that represented the families of the 251 hostages seized during the Hamas-led invasion and massacre, and the Goldin family has been active in the forum ever since.
Israel views ‘with great severity’ Hamas’s withholding of Hadar Goldin’s body, official says
[IsraelTimes] Israel views “with great severity” Hamas’s violation of the ceasefire deal by its delay of the return of the body of IDF officer Hadar Goldin, a diplomatic official says.
“Israel demands his return immediately,” the official says.
Hamas has given no official indication of when the ostensible body of Goldin is to be returned, and Israel has received no indication either. Hamas told Al Jazeera yesterday that it had located the remains of Goldin, whom the terror group killed and abducted amid a ceasefire during the 2014 Gaza war.
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Hamas-linked sources released photos of six deceased Al-Qassam Brigades fighters recovered from a Rafah tunnel, where the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin, an IDF officer killed and abducted during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge, was also found. Handover details remain unconfirmed. pic.twitter.com/6dOcDrY8h8
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 8, 2025
| Update from the Times of Israel at 10:30 a.m. ET: Hamas delivers corpse, IDF forwards it to Abu Kabir forensic institute. UPDATE 2 at 12:15 p.m. ET: It’s him. The eleven year torment is over. |
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