Today marks the highest number new immigrants, or olim, to arrive on a single day this year, Nefesh B’Nefesh says in a statement.
On August 20-28, some 600 immigrants from a diverse array of locations across the US and Canada, including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ontario, will arrive in Israel on 14 group flights, the statement adds.
The bodies of the six hostages recovered by the IDF from southern Gaza’s Khan Younis this week all have signs of gunshot wounds, according to initial autopsy findings.
This morning, IDF representatives showed the families of Alex Dancyg, Yagev Buchshtav, Chaim Peri, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, and Avraham Munder, the findings from the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.
The findings are initial, and the IDF and health officials have not yet determined the exact causes of deaths.
The institute is also working to identify four more bodies found near the hostages, are believed by the IDF to be those of terrorists.
On the bodies of the terrorists there were no signs of gunshot wounds, according to the initial findings.
Bullets were found inside some of the bodies of hostages recovered by the IDF from the Gaza Strip last week, leading to an assessment by the military that they were likely murdered by Hamas in captivity, Hebrew media outlets report.
The reports do not detail who among the hostages may have been murdered. However, the mother of Yagev Buchshtav tells Kan radio he was one of those found with bullets in his body.
The deceased hostages brought back from Khan Younis were Buchshtav, 35, Alex Dancyg, 75, Chaim Peri, 79, Yoram Metzger, 80, Nadav Popplewell, 51, and Avraham Munder, 78
IDF troops find explosives in UNRWA bags in Gaza’s Rafah
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group is still holding seven Israeli hostages it captured on October 7, the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reports.
On October 8, PIJ leader Ziyad Nakhaleh released a statement claiming that the group was holding more than 30 of the 251 hostages abducted into Gaza during the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel the previous day.
Some of them were released during a one-week truce in November, the paper notes. It is not clear if any of the hostages in the hands of the PIJ have died.
The news outlet further reports that cooperation between Hamas and the PIJ has strengthened following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month, not only in the Gaza Strip but also in the West Bank, as testified to by the failed suicide bombing by a Nablus resident in Tel Aviv on Sunday, for which the two terror groups claimed joint responsibility.
While the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the PIJ, has lost a significant part of its manpower on the ground in Gaza (the upper echelons of the group are said to be safe abroad), its arsenal has suffered fewer losses than that of Hamas in the ongoing war, the report claims, quoting sources from inside the terror group.
The good state of its military stockpiles allows it to regularly launch rockets at Israel, the paper says. The latest was a volley it claimed against the southern cities of Ashkelon and Sderot on August 6, but the group also launches rockets at IDF forces inside the Strip on an almost daily basis.
The volleys are usually small, consisting of a maximum of three projectiles, and unlike Hamas it is still capable of firing from throughout the Strip, including Gaza City and the north, according to the report.
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