ReutersSun, June 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM UTC1 min readIsraeli forces recover bodies of three hostages from Gaza1 of 5Yonatan Samerano, an Israeli hostage who was kidnapped in the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by HamasJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of three hostages which had been held in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian militant group Hamas' 2023 attack, the military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.The hostages were identified as civilians Ofra Keidar and Yonatan Samerano, and soldier Shay Levinson. All were killed on the day of the attack, on October 7, 2023, the military said.With their retrieval, 50 hostages now remain in Gaza, only 20 of whom are believed to be alive.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe abduction of Samerano, 21 at the time of his death, by a man later identified by Israeli officials as a worker at the U.N.'s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, was caught on CCTV.Around 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, according to Israeli authorities.The subsequent Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza has since killed more than 55,000 Palestinians, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run strip, displaced almost the entire 2.3 million population, plunged the enclave into humanitarian crisis and left much of the territory in ruins.(Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din and Ahmed Tolba in Cairo and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Bernadette Baum)AdvertisementSolve the daily Crossword33,259 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,259 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?CrosswordPlay on Yahoo