Association of families of those captured by "Hamas" Israeli hostages announced that an Israeli kidnapped by the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7 had been killed, AFP reported, citing BTA.
The Israeli army has informed the family of Uriel Baruch that his body is in Gaza, the statement said, which did not specify the date or circumstances of the death. "Hostage Family Forum "Pumpkin" is in mourning after the news of the murder of Ouriel Baruch," the association wrote.
Thirty-five-year-old Ouriel Baruch, father of two children, was one of those kidnapped during the "Nova" music festival. - the place where on October 7 fighters of "Hamas" they killed 364 people.
The Palestinian Islamist movement captured more than 250 people in an unprecedented attack on Israeli soil. About a hundred of them were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners during the cessation of hostilities in late November. According to Israeli authorities, 130 people are still missing, with 34 confirmed dead.
Meanwhile, Israel recalled its team of negotiators from Doha after it deemed the mediation talks on the Gaza Strip truce to be "at an impasse" due to the demands of "Hamas", a high-ranking Israeli representative said, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
The official, who is close to the head of the Mossad spy agency, which is leading the negotiations, accused the leader of "Hamas" in Gaza Yahya Sinwar in sabotaging diplomacy "as part of a wider effort to foment this war during Ramadan".