(Theyeshivaworld) Kibbutz Nir Oz informed its residents on Wednesday night, July 24 that the IDF had recovered the body of Maya Goren, HY”D, who was abducted into Gaza by Hamas terrorists on October 7.
The IDF had previously confirmed in December that Goren was no longer alive, but it wasn’t clear whether she was killed in captivity or murdered on October 7 and her body brought to Gaza.

Kibbutz Nir Yitzchak also informed its residents on Wednesday night that the IDF recovered the body of Oren Goldin, HY”D, a member of the kibbutz’s emergency response squad, who fell in battle against terrorists on October 7, and whose body was abducted into Gaza.

Additionally, the body of Staff Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, HY”D, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier, has also been recovered from Gaza and returned to Israel, according to the head of the local council in his hometown of Lehavim. Ahimas was killed in action on October 7, along with other members of the forward command team led by Col. Asaf Hamami, commander of the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade. The team was engaged in combat with Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Nirim when Ahimas and two other soldiers were fatally wounded. Their remains were then taken into Gaza by Hamas forces.

According to YWN sources, Hamas terrorists arrested in recent weeks provided Israeli intelligence with information that led them to relaunch an operation in Khan Younis, which resulted now in the recovery of the bodies. Multiple sources report that there are bodies of additional hostages – as many as five in total – that have been recovered and brought back to Israel from the same IDF operation that recovered Goren’s body. At press time, information on those recoveries had not yet been made public.