IDF recovers bodies of hostages Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez – www.israelhayom.com

Israeli forces announced on Friday morning that they had recovered the bodies of three more hostages in a midnight operation in the northern Gaza Strip.

Hanan Yablonka, 42, Michel Nisenbaum, 59, and Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, were initially believed to be alive, but intelligence information that emerged during the war revealed that they had been killed in a Hamas attack and their bodies taken to Gaza.

Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez were murdered during the October 7 massacre and abducted to Gaza by Hamas terrorists.

Their bodies were recovered overnight during a joint IDF-ISA operation in Jabaliya and returned to Israel.

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Hernández was killed at the Nova music festival along with his girlfriend Shani Louk, whose body was recovered from Gaza last week and their killing became a symbol of the October 7 tragedy after her body was paraded in the back of a van filled with Hamas terrorists and surrounded by cheering Gazans.

Yablonka, who was also killed in Nova, was a father of two children from Tel Aviv. He was declared a hostage 90 days after October 7.

Nisenbaum, from Sderot, was killed and his body brought to Gaza when he was driving to the Gaza Division base near Re’im to pick up his granddaughter, who was staying with his son-in-law, an officer. Since his fate was unknown at the time, Nisenbaum was also declared alive and taken hostage by Hamas.