Israel captures terrorist from Gaza amid effort to locate last Israeli hostage, Ran Gvili - report
Israeli forces captured a terrorist of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in Gaza as part of efforts to recover the body of the last Israeli hostage, Ran Gvili, the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported.
Citing Palestinian sources, the report claimed “Israel is carrying out covert activity inside the Gaza Strip as part of the search for Gvili,” including the detention of a PIJ operative around a kilometer into the Hamas-controlled area of Gaza City.
"The IDF believes that the captured operative has a direct connection to the holding of Gvili’s body,” the report added.
PIJ sources told the newspaper that “the body was indeed in the possession of their operatives, and after a short period they handed it over to operatives and field commanders in Hamas’s military wing in Gaza City.”
However, Hamas claims that “everyone who oversaw the holding of the body and everyone who knew its location was eliminated in separate operations.”
The All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israel.
