Israel finds the bodies of a girl and her grandmother who were on Hamas hostage list

Israeli authorities announced this Thursday that they have identified the bodies of Noya Dan, a 12-year-old Israeli girl with autism, and her grandmother Carmela, 80, who were on the list of hostages taken by the Islamist group Hamas during the attack on Israel. on October 7.

“We are devastated to announce that the bodies of Noya and her grandmother Carmela were found yesterday. Our hearts are broken,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on its official X account, formerly Twitter, without giving details about where the bodies were found and under what circumstances.

Last Sunday, the ministry said the girl, a Harry Potter fan, had been “kidnapped from her home by Hamas terrorists and taken to Gaza.” Then, the writer J.K.. Rowling, author of the saga, wrote: “For obvious reasons, this image has struck me. “May Noya and all the hostages taken by Hamas return soon and safely to their families.”

The war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7 when the Islamist group launched a barrage of rockets and at the same time infiltrated more than 1,200 of its militiamen into Israeli soil, who tortured, massacred and kidnapped nearly a thousand villagers. bordering the Gaza Strip. So far, Israel has 1,400 dead – among them 306 soldiers -, more than 4,000 wounded, some 100,000 displaced and an unknown number of missing.