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Halevi tells troops in Jabaliya IDF willing to carry out risky missions to retrieve bodies of slain hostages
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Speaking to officers in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi says the military is willing to carry out risky missions to recover the bodies of slain hostages.
“The mission… is to kill as many [Hamas] commanders as possible, as many terrorists as possible, to destroy the infrastructure. This pressure… will also help us to bring hostages alive and we are ready to carry out dangerous and complicated operations to bring the bodies of our hostages back to be buried in Israel,” Halevi says.
The bodies of four hostages killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 were recently recovered from a tunnel in Jabaliya. A paratrooper officer was killed during fighting above ground in the area of the operation.
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