Israeli troopers close to Gaza’s largest hospital discovered the physique of a hostage seized by Hamas militants of their assaults on southern Israel on October 7, the military stated Thursday.

A army spokesman recognized the slain lady as Yehudit Weiss, saying she had been “murdered” by militants within the war-torn Palestinian territory.

“Yehudit was murdered by the terrorists in the Gaza Strip and we didn’t manage to reach her in time,” spokesman Daniel Hagari informed a televised briefing.

Hamas has repeatedly accused Israel of being accountable for the deaths of hostages together with Israelis by means of its intensive bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli officers say round 240 individuals had been taken hostage through the Hamas assaults which killed some 1,200 individuals, largely civilians.

Since then, Hamas authorities officers say Israel’s bombardment and floor offensive have killed greater than 11,500 individuals, additionally largely civilians and together with hundreds of kids.

According to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, Weiss, 65, was kidnapped from her residence when her Gaza border kibbutz group of Beeri was stormed by Hamas militants on October 7.

Her husband was killed within the assault, the Israeli group stated, including the couple had 5 kids, 4 of whom had been additionally in Beeri on the time of the assault and survived it.

Israeli particular forces started raiding Al-Shifa hospital early on Wednesday, with an official saying that they had discovered footage referring to hostages on computer systems on the facility.

Hamas says the operation has severely broken the hospital, a focus of Israel’s struggle on Hamas.

Israel claims Hamas operates a base beneath Al-Shifa, a cost the Islamist motion denies.

According to the military assertion, “military equipment including Kalashnikov rifles and RPGs” had been present in the identical location as Weiss’s physique.

Earlier, an Israeli official stated troops had been working contained in the sprawling facility, “proceeding one building at a time, searching each floor, all while hundreds of patients and medical staff remain in the complex”.

Intelligence supplies together with gear “belonging to Hamas” had been discovered at Al-Shifa, the official stated, including that the gadgets seized had been taken for “further examination and investigation”.

An AFP journalist within the hospital stated lots of of troopers had been concerned within the operation, encircling buildings and utilizing armoured bulldozers to push by means of partitions.