Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers found the body of Yehudit Weiss, one of the Hamas hostages

Yehudit Weiss, a mother of five children, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’er on October 7, her husband was killed in a shelter in their home. When she was abducted, Jehudit was undergoing radiation as part of breast cancer treatment, the portal reported.

Israeli soldiers found her body near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The army has not yet announced the cause of her death or when she died, the Times of Israel reported.

Her body was taken to Israel and after identification, the Israel Defense Forces (Cahal) informed the Weiss family about his discovery and expressed their condolences.

“Our mission (…) is to locate the kidnapped and bring the hostages home. We will not stop this mission until it is completed,” the army said in a statement.

Earlier on Thursday, the media reported that Israeli soldiers were continuing to search facilities located in the Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, which they entered on Wednesday morning. The army said it found evidence that the hospital was used for terrorist activities. Photos were also presented showing weapons found at the facility.

One of Cahal’s spokesmen, Jonathan Conricus, also announced that computers were found at the facility, and the laptops contained photos and videos of hostages kidnapped from Israel to Gaza during the Hamas attack on October 7.

Also the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with US television station CBS News that there were “strong indications” that the hostages held by Hamas were in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

“That was one of the reasons we entered the hospital,” Netanyahu admitted, adding that the hostages were not at the facility when the Israeli military arrived. Netanyahu stressed that his government had “intelligence on the hostages” but declined to provide more details.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a telephone conversation with Beni Gantz, the Israeli opposition leader who has joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet, stressed the “urgent” need for concrete steps to defuse tensions in the West Bank, including addressing rising levels of extremist settler violence against Palestinians.

Efforts to release hostages held by Hamas and to increase and accelerate the transport of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip were also discussed, the State Department said in a statement. USA.