Hi,
Like the Mitzvah of Pidyon shvuyim, the idea of bodies of dead Jewish need to be buried properly is an important idea in Judisam.
This is why some of the fighting activities in the war in Gaza Strip are to rescue bodies of soldiers and citizens that were killed in the Black Sabbath or kidnapped then and killed later on.
Bodies of three hostages (two of them soldiers) were rescued today from Gaza by IDF forces: Corporal Nick Beiser (19 years old), Sergeant Ron Sherman, 19, and Elia Toledano, 28.
The two soldiers, Nick and Ron, were kidnapped alive and murdered in captavity as hostages. Showing you again the curtly of the terror organization we are of Hamas we are fighting against.
Gal Meir Eisenkot zl, the son of former chief of staff and member of the cabinet, Gadi Eisenkot, lost his life about a week ago in action in Gaza strip to rescue bodies of dead hostages.
After this action, the number of hostages still held in Hamas captavity went down to 132 (we do know how many of them alive), and the number of hostages released or rescued went up to 118 hostages.
The idea of the whole body and every part of a dead Jewish body need to be buried in the groundled to situations where parts of death from terror attacks need to be looked up. This is the purpose ofZAKA organization (the acrynom of Disaster Victim Identification).
I remember after the Nagmash disaster happened in 2004 in the Gaza strip (13 soldiers were killed when two M113 APC, packed with explosives exploded after got hit by an RPG), mandatory duty soldiers had to crawl on Philadelphi Route along the Egyptian border to find pieces of their friends spread along from the explosion.
Take Care
Gad
The names of 132 hostages are still held by Hamas terrorists since they have been kidnapped in the Black Sabbath (October 7th)
Mandatory duty soldiers Crawling on Philadelphi Route along the Egyptian border with Gaza strip, looking for pieces of bodies from the Nagmash disaster. (Source: Barkay wolfoson/AP, Haaretz.com)
Zechariah Baumel – an IDF soldier which its remains returned 37 years after he was declared missing in the battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon War (1982)
Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, whixh I wrote to you about when discussing the hostage deal. Their bodies returned to Israel two years after kidnapped, what led to 2nd Lebanon war