Red Cross, Hamas members said searching for body of hostage in Israeli-held area of Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian

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8 November 2025, 11:12 am

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Illustrative: A Hamas gunman stands not far from an International Red Cross (ICRC) vehicle, as a search for the bodies of killed Israeli hostages takes place, in Gaza City on November 2, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

The Saudi Al-Hadath channel reports that Red Cross vehicles and Hamas members are headed to the Jenina neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip to search for the body of an Israeli hostage.

Jenina, which is on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line — meaning IDF-held territory — is where some 150 Hamas operatives are assessed by the IDF to be holed up in a tunnel network.

Defense officials said earlier this week that the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin is being held in the area, though the IDF denied having any intelligence indicating that the remains are being held in the tunnel with the trapped gunmen.