Oron Shaul, whose body was recovered from Gaza, to be buried in hometown Poriya Ilit this afternoon

Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul will be buried in his hometown of Poriya Ilit at 2 p.m., after his body was recovered from Gaza on Saturday, more than 10 years after he was killed and captured by Hamas during Operation Protective Edge.

Channel 13 reports that a section of Route 7677 leading up to the northern Israel community will be closed to traffic in both directions between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Shaul was killed during the 2014 Gaza war when troops of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion entered Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood in an M-113 armored personnel carrier. The APC got stuck in one of the neighborhood’s narrow streets, and during attempts to extract it, it came under attack by Hamas operatives launching anti-tank missiles.

Seven soldiers were killed in the incident, and Shaul’s body was captured and dragged away from the scene by Hamas operatives.