Ya’alon: We didn’t do enough to bring back bodies of soldiers captured by Hamas

6 April 2017, 6:16 pm

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Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon laments that Israel didn’t “do enough” to retrieve the bodies of IDF soldiers Lt. Hadar Goldin and Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul, who were killed in the 2014 Gaza war, known in Israel as Operation Protective Edge.

“More than two and a half years have passed since the Protective Edge campaign, and the bodies of Lt. Hadar Goldin and Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul are still in the hands of an enemy,” Ya’alon says, speaking at the opening ceremony of a memorial site for Goldin, according to Army Radio.

“Did we do enough to bring back Oron and Hadar for a burial in Israel? Unfortunately, I can’t give an affirmative answer to that question,” Ya’alon says.