A woman holds a poster with an image of Idan Shtivi, in Tel Aviv, Israel, as hostages are released by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, November 26, 2023. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
Israel identified the body of hostage Idan Shtivi, recovered from the Gaza Strip in a military operation this week that retrieved the remains of two hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Saturday.
Netanyahu’s office had announced on Friday the retrieval of Ilan Weiss’s body along with the remains of another hostage, whose identity is now known to be that of Shtivi but had not been disclosed at the time.
