Bodies of hostages, including historian, returned to Israel
On Tuesday, six bodies of hostages who were abducted to the Gaza Strip by Hamas on October 7, 2023, were brought to Israel. Among them is the body of Alex Dancyg.
The information was provided by the Israeli army in a statement on platform X, confirming earlier media reports.
The body of Alex Dancyg brought back
The bodies of Nadav Popplewell, Yaakov Buchstaw, Yoram Matzger, Chaim Peri, Avraham Munder, and Alex Dancyg were retrieved, according to the post.
Alex Dancyg, born in Warsaw in 1948 to a family of Holocaust survivors, held both Polish and Israeli citizenship. In 1957, he emigrated to Israel with his parents. There, he joined the Kibbutz movement, served in the army, and later completed his studies in history. Since 1990, he worked at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem, which is dedicated to Holocaust remembrance and education.
"Kibbutz Nir Oz reports with great sorrow the death at the age of 79 of Avraham Munder, who died in captivity after months of both physical and psychological torture," stated the kibbutz from which Munder, Dancyg, Peri, and Matzger were abducted. The others were abducted from Kibbutz Nirim.
At the beginning of August, the Israeli military assessed that as time passed, the likelihood of obtaining intelligence information about the hostages would increase. However, at the same time, the chances of the abducted individuals surviving would decrease.
During the Hamas terrorist attack on southern Israel, nearly 1,200 people were killed, and 251 were abducted. At Kibbutz Nir Oz, a massacre occurred in which many residents lost their lives or were abducted.
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