Netanyahu meets families of slain soldiers held by Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the families of Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, IDF soldiers whose bodies are held by the Hamas terror group.

Netanyahu updated the families on the “unceasing efforts” to return their bodies, including both “open and covert ways,” the Prime Minister’s Office says. The two soldiers were killed in Gaza during the 2014 war with Hamas.

The meeting was attended by Yaron Blum, a Shin Bet veteran who in October became the point man for efforts to return the bodies of Israelis being held by Hamas.

The terror group is also believed to be holding Israeli citizens Avraham Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who are said to have entered Gaza on their own accord.