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Israeli military says it recovered body of Thai hostage from southern
Gaza
By Oren Liebermann, CNN
Updated:
4:39 PM EDT, Sat June 7, 2025
Source: CNN
The body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who was abducted alive
during the October 7 attacks was recovered from southern in a military
operation on Friday, according to a statement from the Israeli military
and the Shin Bet security service.
The announcement comes after Israel recovered the bodies of two
Israeli-American hostages from Gaza.
Pinta, 35, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel where he
had been working in agriculture, according to an Israeli military
official, who said it is estimated that he was killed during the first
months of captivity. Pinta was a husband and father working in Israel
to support his family in Thailand, the official said.
“We will not rest until all the hostages, living and deceased, are
returned home,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement.
“The state of Israel shares in the deep sorrow of Nattapong’s
family and of the entire Thai people,” said Israeli President Isaac
Herzog in a statement shared on social media Saturday evening.
Pinta was abducted by the Mujahideen, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
said, a militant group that took part in the Hamas-led October 7 terror
attack on Israel. The IDF said it is the same organization that
kidnapped the Bibas family and killed Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas, the
mother and two young sons who became the most prominent among Hamas’
captives.
Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Saturday that it was
“deeply saddened” by the news of Pinta’s death.
“The Royal Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv was informed by a representative
of the Israeli government that Mr. Nattapong Pinta, the last Thai
hostage, has been confirmed dead,” Nikorndej Balankura, a
spokesperson for the ministry, said in a video statement.
Earlier this week, Israel announced that the bodies of Judy
Winston-Haggai, 70, and Gadi Haggai, 72, were recovered from southern
Gaza. The two were also taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz. The couple had four
children and seven grandchildren.
The retrieval of Pinta’s body comes with an intense Israeli operation
underway in Gaza, with the Civil Defense reporting at least 38 people
were killed in Israeli attacks on Friday.
The IDF said four soldiers were killed and five wounded early Friday
morning when an explosive was detonated in a building in Khan Younis in
which they were operating, causing part of the structure to collapse.
A total of 55 hostages remain in Gaza, including one taken in 2014.
Twenty are believed to still be alive.
Of the 251 people taken hostage by Hamas militants on October 7, many
were migrant workers from poor rural parts of Asia, who had gone to
work in Israel’s agricultural, construction and health care sectors
to send money back home.
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