Morning brief: Israel discovers remains of Oct 7 hostages; mpox crisis lingers, and more
Morning news brief: Sept 1, 2024
Over ten months after Hamas attacked southern Israel, triggeringthe ongoing war in Gaza, the Israeli side discovered the remains of 6 hostages.
Even asthe Israeli military said that the remains are yet to be identified, the United States has revealed that one of the dead hostages isan Israeli-American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
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The Israel Defence Forces on Saturday (Aug 31) night announced that its troops had located several bodies in the Gaza Strip. These bodies as per reports could be of hostages taken by the militant group Hamas on Oct 7.
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