The Israeli military has recovered the bodies of a Canadian Israeli and an Israeli American who had been held hostage by Hamas for 608 days following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza.
The bodies of Canadian citizen Judih Weinstein and her husband Gad Haggai were recovered in the Gaza Strip and have been returned to Israel, following a special operation carried out by the Israel Security Agency and the Israel Defense Forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on June 5.
