![]() A number of families of hostages are in Washington, DC this week to make a personal case for the Biden administration and Israeli government to work harder and more creatively for their loved ones’ release. The meeting will take place at the White House. ![]() US President Joe Biden on Wednesday will meet with families of American hostages abducted by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, a White House official told CNN. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in Las Vegas on December 8. The Israeli Prime Minister’s office has revised the number of hostages in Gaza to 135, in light of the announcement that the bodies of two hostages have been recovered from Gaza. In her last phone call, according to the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum, she managed to ask her father to look after her two hunting dogs. Zecharya was kidnapped with injuries to the upper half of her body. She spoke to her father on the phone and said they were under fire. She had traveled to Re'im with her boyfriend, 23-year-old Ofek Kimchi. The Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum headquarters said Zecharya was 28 and filled with joy for life. It added that during the operations that enabled the location of the bodies, two IDF soldiers on reserve duty were killed and others injured. Zecharya was taken hostage from the Re'im music festival and Dado was taken hostage and fell while serving in the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion, and until today was recognized as a fallen soldier in captivity, the IDF said. The Israeli military continued: “After an identification procedure carried out by medical officials and military rabbis together with the Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Israel Police, today (Tuesday) IDF and Israel Police representatives informed the families of Eden Zecharya and (SGM) Ziv Dado, who were taken hostage by the Hamas terrorist organization on October 7th, that their bodies had been recovered and returned to Israel.” “During an operation in Gaza, the bodies of the hostages Eden Zecharya and Ziv Dado were recovered by IDF Special Forces and brought back to Israel,” the IDF said in a statement Tuesday. It named them as Eden Zecharya and Ziv Dado. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that the bodies of two Israeli hostages have been recovered in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces released this image on Tuesday after announcing the bodies of two Israeli hostages had been recovered in Gaza. Here's how to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza.Dozens of medical staff at a northern Gaza hospital were taken to an undisclosed location by the Israeli military, a senior doctor said, as the enclave’s wider health care system teeters on the edge of collapse.Rifts between the US and Israel spilled into public as President Joe Biden warned that Israel was losing international support for its campaign against Hamas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected US plans for post-war Gaza.Israel told the US it has begun "carefully testing out" flooding some of Hamas' Gaza tunnels with seawater "on a limited basis" to see if it will work to degrade them on a larger scale, a US official told CNN.While politically significant and seen as wielding moral weight, the vote is nonbinding. The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand an immediate Gaza ceasefire in a rebuke to the United States, which last week blocked a similar Security Council resolution.
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