The bodies of three more hostages killed on 7 October have been found in Gaza, Israel’s army has said.
The Hostages Families Forum named them as Michel Nisenbaum, Hanan Yablonka, and Oryon Hernandez Radoux – and said their bodies had been returned to Israel for burial.
“The sorrowful return of Michel, Hanan, and Oryon is another heartbreak for the 125 families of the hostages, who share the pain, sorrow, and endless worry,” it said in a statement.
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The footage shows the women captured by Hamas fighters, before being put into a jeep and driven off.
“Their return for burial provides important closure for the family members, and efforts must be made to bring all the murdered hostages back to Israel.”
The bodies were identified by medical officials at the Israeli National Forensic Institute and the Israeli police, the military said.
Michel Nisenbaum, 59, was a Brazilian-Israeli citizen from Sderot who was taken by Hamas as he sought to rescue his four-year-old granddaughter, according to the hostages group.
He had two daughters and six grandchildren, the youngest of whom he never had a chance to meet.
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Hanan Yablonka, 42 and from Tel Aviv, was a “devoted and loving father” to Yarin, 9, and Emily, 12.
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He was attending the Nova festival when he was captured on 7 October, when Hamas paraglided over the border into southern Israel and killed 1,200 people – becoming the bloodiest day in the country’s history. About 250 people were abducted.
Oryon Hernandez Radoux, 30 and a French-Mexican citizen, was at the Nova festival with his partner, Shani Louk, and their friend Keshet Casarotti. Both Louk and Casarotti were killed by Hamas militants.
They included Ron Benjamin, 53, Itzhak Gelerenter, 56, Amit Buskila, 28, and Shani Louk, 22.
Around half of the hostages taken on 7 October have been freed, most in swaps for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel during a weeklong cease-fire in November.
Israel says around 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 30 more.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to both eliminate Hamas – the militant group ruling Gaza – and bring all the hostages back, but he’s made little progress.
He faces pressure to resign, and the US has threatened to scale back its support over the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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The summit was aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. Moscow was not invited, and its main ally China declined to attend.
Vladimir Putin is not ruling out talks with Ukraine, according to his spokesperson, who said guarantees would be needed to ensure the credibility of any negotiations.
It comes as Kremlin forces in Ukraine claim to have taken control of a village in Zaporizhzhia.
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‘We must bring each and every one of them home’
A joint communique from 80 countries said the UN Charter and “respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty… can and will serve as a basis for achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine”.
“The ongoing war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine continues to cause large-scale human suffering and destruction, and to create risks and crises with global repercussions,” the declaration said.
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Participants India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates were among those that did not sign up to the final document, which focused on issues of nuclear safety, food security and the exchange of prisoners.
Brazil, which has “observer” status, also did not sign. With China, Brazil has jointly sought to plot alternative routes toward peace.
Ursula von der Leyen, chief of the European Commission, said this weekend has brought peace closer to Ukraine, but that peace will not be achieved in one step.
“It was not a peace negotiation because Putin is not serious about ending the war, he’s insisting on capitulation, he’s insisting on ceding Ukrainian territory – even territory that today is not occupied,” she said.
Analysts say the two-day conference is likely to have little concrete impact towards ending the war because the country leading and continuing it, Russia, was not invited.
Montenegro Prime Minister Milojko Spajic told the gathering on Sunday: “As a father of three, I’m deeply concerned by thousands of Ukrainian kids forcibly transferred to Russia or Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine.”
“We all at this table need to do more so that children of Ukraine are back in Ukraine,” he added.
Sweden has released a convicted Iranian war criminal as part of a prisoner swap deal.
Tehran and Stockholm carried out the switch, which saw a European Union diplomat and another man released in exchange for Hamid Nouri, who was found guilty of being complicit in the 1988 mass executions in the Islamic Republic.
Nouri was arrested in 2019 as he travelled in Swedenas a tourist.
This likely prompted the detention of the two Swedes, part of a long-running strategy by Iran to use those with ties abroad as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West.
While Iranian state television claimed that Nouri had been “illegally detained”, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said diplomat Johan Floderus and a second Swedish citizen, Saeed Azizi, had been facing a “hell on earth”.
“Iran has made these Swedes pawns in a cynical negotiation game with the aim of getting the Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri released from Sweden,” Mr Kristersson said on Saturday.
“It has been clear all along that this operation would require difficult decisions – now the government has made those decisions.”
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State TV showed film of Nouri limping off a plane at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran and embracing his family.
“I am Hamid Nouri. I am in Iran,” he said. “God makes me free.”
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Oman mediated the release, its state-run news agency reported.
In 2022, the Stockholm District Court sentenced Nouri to life in prison.
It identified him as an assistant to the deputy prosecutor at the Gohardasht prison outside the Iranian city of Karaj.
The 1988 mass executions came at the end of Iran’s long war with Iraq.
After Iran’s then Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini accepted a United Nations-brokered ceasefire, members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, backed by Saddam Hussein, stormed across the Iranian border in a surprise attack.
Iran ultimately blunted their assault but the attack set the stage for the sham retrials of political prisoners, militants and others that would become known as “death commissions”.
International rights groups estimate that as many as 5,000 people were executed. Iran has never fully acknowledged the executions, apparently carried out on Mr Khomeini’s orders, though some argue that other top officials were effectively in charge in the months before his 1989 death.
Late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month, was also involved in the mass executions.
Mr Floderus was arrested in April 2022 at Tehran airport while returning from a holiday with friends. He had been held for months before his family and others went public about his detention.
Mr Azizi’s case was not as prominent but in February the group Human Rights Activists in Iran reported that the dual Iranian-Swedish national had been sentenced to five years in prison by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security”.
Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed inside Gaza, the Israeli military has confirmed.
The military personnel were killed in a blast in the southern city of Rafah on Saturday morning, according to the Israeli military.
It comes amid Israel’s ongoing offensive there and its operation to rescue the remaining hostages taken by Hamas militants on 7 October.
Saturday’s is the deadliest incident for Israeli soldiers since January when 21 were killed when two buildings collapsed in central Gaza.
The eight dead are believed to have been driving in a convoy following an overnight offensive against Hamas, according to the Times of Israel, and died inside an armoured vehicle.
One has been named as Captain Wassem Mahmoud, 23, of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Batallion. The families of the other seven have been informed and will be named in due course.
More than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the conflict, according to the Hamas-run health authorities in Gaza.