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Israel finds bodies of six more ‘brutally murdered’ hostages

Stephanie Kelly and Ari Rabinovitch
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Jerusalem | Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were apparently killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, the military said on Sunday.

“According to our initial estimation, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists a short time before we reached them,” military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told reporters in a briefing.

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