Itzik and Talik Gvili, parents of deceased hostage Ran Gvili, on November 22, 2025, at a Hostages Forum rally. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Forum)
The father of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last slain Israeli hostage still held in the Gaza Strip, says that neither Israel nor the terror groups in Gaza knows where his body is, and that he fears his son will never be returned to Israel.
Itzik Gvili tells the Kan broadcaster that he is praying that his son won’t end up like Lt. Hadar Goldin, an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014 and whose body was held in Gaza until it was returned this month, or like Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator who has been classified as missing since 1988.
Gvili says he is praying that “we won’t carry this around for many, many years.”
“We’re moving forward because we have to,” he says.
“Hamas says they’re looking for his body, but we don’t see any progress,” Gvili tells Kan. “They are playing games and deceiving us.”
Police officer Sgt. First Class Ran Gvili, confirmed on January 31, 2024, to have been killed by terrorists on October 7, with his body abducted to Gaza (Israel Police)
Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili was killed battling Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Alumim on October 7, 2023, and his body was abducted to Gaza.
He is one of the last two deceased hostages still held in Gaza, along with Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, who was killed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri, where he was employed as an agricultural worker.
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