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The Israeli military said he was “murdered in captivity,” without providing further information or their forensic analysis of the body, which on Tuesday was on its way to Nepal.

His family received no signs of life for a year, until the Israeli military shared a video of him in captivity around November 2023.

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Their families had pinned their hopes on their loved one returning on Monday, after two years in captivity.

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His body is still in Gaza along with those of 23 other hostages who died in captivity or were killed during the Hamas-led Oct.

The last of the living hostages, all 20 of them, returned home to Israel on Monday after 737 days in Hamas captivity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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