TEL AVIV, June 7. /TASS/. The Israeli military has recovered the body of another hostage seized in the October 7, 2023 attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.
According to the army, the body of Nattapong Pinta, a Thai national, was retrieved from the Rafah area in the Gaza Strip in a joint operation carried out by the IDF and the Israeli Security Agency (ISA).
"The operation was made possible by precise intelligence obtained from an ISA interrogation of a terrorist, along with intelligence received from the Hostage Task Force and the IDF Intelligence Directorate," the statement notes.
"Following an identification procedure carried out by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in cooperation with the Israel Police," Israeli officials notified the hostage’s family and the Thai government.
According to the IDF, "Nattapong Pinta was abducted alive by terrorists of the Mujahideen terrorist organization from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, and was murdered while in captivity by the murderous terrorist organization."
The Israeli army pointed out that it was the Mujahideen organization that "abducted, held, and murdered Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas, whose bodies were returned as part of the last hostage deal, as well as the bodies of Gad Haggai and Judi Lynn Weinstein, which were returned earlier this week."
The Mujahideen organization is also "holding the body of another foreign national," the statement adds.