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Sunday, January 19, 2025
With return of Oron Shaul’s body from Gaza, PM vows to also bring back Hadar Goldin
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAmy Spiro is a reporter and writer with The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes the return of the body of IDF soldier Oron Shaul, who was killed in 2014 in Gaza and his body held by Hamas ever since.
“I embrace the dear Shaul family, and congratulate the Shin Bet and IDF forces for their resourcefulness and courage,” Netanyahu says in a statement.
The prime minister says photos of Shaul and fellow fallen IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, whose body has also held by Hamas for more than a decade, “have been on display in my office for many years as a daily reminder of my responsibility to bring them home.”
Netanyahu says that Israel has now “completed the mission to bring back Oron, and we will not rest or be silent until we return home Hadar Goldin. We’ll continue to work to bring all of the hostages home — both the living and the fallen.”
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