According to the IDF, the 6 hostages were murdered by Hamas just days before troops found them. The IDF had intelligence of a general area where the six hostages might be. Troops began to search a tunnel complex in Rafah yesterday and found the murdered hostages in the afternoon. Overnight their bodies were extracted from Gaza and brought to Israel for identification. The tunnel in which the hostages were found was about one kilometer away from where soldiers rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi earlier this week.
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