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Family and friends of slain hostage Omer Neutra gather for candlelight vigil in Ra’anana

3 December 2024, 12:04 am 3 Edit
Friends and family attend a ceremony in memory of IDF Cpt. Omer Neutra who was murdered in Hamas's October 7 massacre, Ra'anana, December 2, 2024. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
Friends and family attend a ceremony in memory of IDF Cpt. Omer Neutra who was murdered in Hamas's October 7 massacre, Ra'anana, December 2, 2024. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Family and friends of Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra gather in Ra’anana for a candlelight vigil after the IDF announced that the 21-year-old was killed amid Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack. His body is still being held by terrorists in Gaza.

Neutra was stationed in a tank on the Gaza border near the southern community of Nahal Oz on the morning of the Hamas-led onslaight, when some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.

Until now it had been believed that Neutra, an American-Israeli citizen, was alive and being held hostage in Gaza.

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