Health Ministry: 6 hostages were killed between Thursday and Friday morning
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The Health Ministry says that the six hostages recovered from the Gaza Strip overnight were killed 48 to 72 hours before their autopsy, meaning between Thursday and Friday morning.
It says that an examination carried out by Abu Kabir Forensic Institute found that all six hostages were shot multiple times from close range.
The IDF has said that Hamas terrorists murdered the hostages relatively shortly before troops located their bodies in a tunnel in Rafah, on Saturday afternoon.
The hostages brought back overnight were Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, and Almog Sarusi.
