PM spoke with family of last slain Israeli hostage Ran Gvili yesterday, his office says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke yesterday with the family of slain hostage Ran Gvili, one of the two deceased captives still in Gaza, the Prime Minister’s Office announces.

The premier provided Gvili’s parents, Talik and Itzik, with “details about the efforts Israel is making to bring him home and his determination to bring him back for burial in Israel,” the PMO says in a statement.

Gvili, a member of the Yasam police counter-terror unit, rushed to the frontlines the morning of October 7, heading to besieged Kibbutz Alumim. He fell in battle, and terrorists soon spirited his body into Gaza.

Netanyahu “expressed his deep appreciation for the Gvili family’s steadfastness, national pride and values,” the statement continues.

Netanyahu also spoke with Thailand’s ambassador to Israel, Boonyarit Vichienpuntu, and updated him on efforts to bring home Sudthisak Rinthalak, a Thai worker and the second slain hostage still held by terrorist organizations in the enclave. Rinthalak was murdered at Kibbutz Be’eri the morning of Hamas’s invasion, and his body was taken into Gaza.

Netanyahu’s conversations with both Gvili’s parents and the Thai ambassador were attended by the government’s hostage point man, Gal Hirsch, the PMO adds.