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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Coffin of slain hostage Nattapong Pinta arrives in Thailand, is met by his widow
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Narissara Chantasang, fifth from left, wife of Nattapong Pinta, a Thai laborer who was taken hostage and killed by terrorists in Gaza, attends a silent memorial service near the coffin containing his body at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn province Thailand, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
The body of slain hostage Nattapong Pinta, who Hamas-led terrorists abducted on October 7, 2023, arrives in Thailand.
His coffin is met by his widow and Thai officials.
Thai national Pinta’s remains were recovered in a joint Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet operation in the southern Gaza Strip, officials announced Saturday morning.
He was kidnapped alive by terrorists of the Mujahideen Brigades — a relatively small terror group in the Strip loosely allied with Hamas — from the Gaza border community of Kibbutz Nir Oz, where he worked as a farmhand.
The IDF said it believed that the terror group murdered Pinta in captivity during the first months of the war.
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