The military rushed to find Gvili's remains as the clock ticked down for Israel to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing.
The IDF on Monday afternoon found the remains of the last remaining Israeli hostage, St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, in northern Gaza. According to the IDF on Sunday night, a series of clandestine operations started over the weekend to get closer to the potential location of Gvili.
There were two to three locations where the IDF suspected Gvili was buried, but the recent intelligence gave indications that Gvili was buried in a Muslim cemetery in the Shejaiay Darah-Tuffah portion of northern Gaza on the Israeli side of the yellow line.
The IDF said that the intelligence it obtained about Gvili's remains did not come directly from Hamas. At the same time, the IDF said that Hamas, or the Qatari mediators, were consulted about this intelligence, and had believed it could be correct. IDF sources implied that Hamas's recent information about where Gvili might have been buried, may have been misdirection. (Read More)
