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Friday, May 24, 2024
Netanyahu reiterates ‘national and moral duty’ to rescue hostages after bodies of three recovered
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extends condolences to the families of Orión Hernández Radoux, Hanan Yablonka, and Michel Nisenbaum after the IDF said it had recovered their bodies from Gaza in an overnight operation.
“We have a national and moral duty to do everything we can to return our hostages — the living and the deceased — and that is what we are doing,” he says.
“I congratulate the IDF and security forces who acted with great courage in the heart of enemy territory to return them to their families and for burial in Israel,” he adds.