The Israeli army confirmed in a statement early Thursday morning that its forces were able to recover the bodies of 4 Israeli captives from the Gaza Strip during the operation launched in the Khan Yunis area in southern Gaza. The army stated that its forces successfully retrieved the bodies of Mia Gorin, Oren Golden, Tomer Achimes, and Kirill Brodski during a "complex operation" in Khan Yunis.
Israeli broadcasting authority reported that Brodski and Achimes were killed during clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters in Kibbutz Nirim on October 7, while Mia Gorin was killed in Kibbutz Nirim Oz. Oren Golden was a member of the civilian guard unit for Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak. The newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth" reported on Wednesday evening that Kibbutz "Nir Oz," near Gaza, announced the recovery of Mia Gorin's body (56 years old), without providing further details. Kibbutz "Nir Yitzhak," also near Gaza, announced that the body of Oren Golden, a member of the settlement's protection team, was returned from the Gaza Strip during the military operation in which Gorin's body was retrieved.
The Hebrew newspaper "Israel Hayom" stated that Golden (33 years old) was also killed on October 7, and his body was held in Gaza. During the operation carried out by the Israeli army in Khan Yunis, 129 Palestinians were reported killed and 416 others injured, over 100 of whom had not yet reached hospitals, according to the government media office, which also noted that 82 families have been evacuated so far from 1,350 requests from besieged families, while the Israeli occupation bombed 22 inhabited homes over their occupants.
