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IDF recovers Ran Gvili's body, all October 7 hostages are home

The IDF said Alexandroni Brigade reservists, the Yahalom engineering unit, the Military Rabbinate and forensic teams recovered Ran Gvili's remains from the al-Batesh cemetery in Gaza City's Shuja'iyya neighborhood. Gvili, a police officer killed while defending Kibbutz Alumim on October 7, 2023, was the last of the 251 people abducted that day whose body remained in Gaza.

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