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Israel announced today that it had found the bodies of six hostages during an operation in the Gaza Strip.
The army said all six had been killed shortly before Israeli forces arrived. Their recovery prompted calls for mass protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom many hostage families and Israeli citizens blame for the failure.
They accuse Netanyahu of not being able to reach an agreement with Hamas to end the war and return the hostages alive.
Negotiations for such an agreement have dragged on for a month.
Militants took five of the hostages at a music festival in southern Israel during the October 7 Hamas attack that sparked the war. The sixth was kidnapped from the farming community near Be'eri.
Netanyahu accused Hamas of destroying ongoing ceasefire efforts.
"Anyone who kills hostages does not want a deal ," he said in a statement posted on X.
Critics in Israel have accused Netanyahu of stalling the deal and ceasefire talks, a charge he denies.
The Israeli military said the bodies were found in a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, about a kilometer from where another hostage was rescued alive last week.
"According to preliminary information, they were brutally killed by Hamas terrorists ," Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said.
Hamas has offered to release the hostages in exchange for an end to the war, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including high-profile militants.
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