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Sunday, November 9, 2025
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Sunday, November 9, 2025
IDF receives casket with apparent body of hostage, which Hamas says is Lt. Hadar Goldin
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Chemi Goldin, brother of Lt. Hadar Goldin, whose body is still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, speaks at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, on October 28, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
IDF troops in the Gaza Strip have received a casket, with the apparent body of a hostage, from the Red Cross a short while ago.
The casket had been picked up by the Red Cross from Hamas in southern Gaza.
The IDF is set to inspect the casket before draping it in an Israeli flag and holding a short ceremony led by a military rabbi.
The remains will then be taken to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification.
Hamas has said that the body belongs to Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed and abducted by the terror group in the 2014 Gaza War.
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