Autopsies of 6 Bodies Recovered From Gaza Reveal Bullets, Advocacy Group for Hostage Families Says

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Autopsies of 6 Bodies Recovered From Gaza Reveal Bullets, Advocacy Group for ******** Families Says

A group representing relatives of hostages taken in the Oct. 7 ******* on ******* said on Thursday that autopsies showed “bullets were found in the bodies” of six captives ******** troops recovered from an underground tunnel in southern Gaza, raising questions about how they *****.

The group, the Hostages Family Forum, said that the autopsy results indicated that the six hostages “were taken alive and ********* in the tunnels of ******.”

But an ******** military spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter to families, said on Thursday that the autopsies showed “marks suggestive of gunshots” on the bodies and stressed it was too soon to determine whether gunshot wounds were the cause of ******.

The autopsy reports have not been made public. The New York Times has not reviewed them and cannot confirm the results.

Four other bodies found in the tunnels near the hostages, believed to belong to ****** militants, did not display the same marks, the military spokesperson said.

How and when the hostages ***** has been a matter of contention. ****** has blamed the deaths on ******** airstrikes, and the ******** military has acknowledged some of them likely ***** while ******* was carrying out military operations in the area where they were found. Some ******* news outlets reported the hostages may have suffocated when the tunnel filled with toxins after an airstrike.

The revelations raise new questions about the circumstances of the hostages’ deaths after months of conflicting statements about some of the recovered captives from ****** and the ******** military.

On Tuesday, the ******** military announced that it had recovered the six bodies in a hidden tunnel network, alongside four of their presumed captors.

Five of the six captives were already believed to be *****, according to the ******** military. Three of them — Haim Peri, 80; Yoram Metzger, 80; and Alexander Dancyg, 75 — had been abducted from the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza border. Two others — Nadav Popplewell, 51, and Yagev Buchshtab, 35 — were taken from another border community, Nirim.

The sixth body belonged to another resident of Nir Oz, Avraham Munder, 79. Mr. Munder’s ****** had not been established previously.

Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for ******’s military wing, said in March that Mr. Metzger and Mr. Peri were among seven hostages who had been ******* in ******** airstrikes in Gaza. ****** then said in May that Mr. Popplewell had ***** from injuries sustained in an ******** airstrike more than a month earlier.

Weeks later, in early June, the ******** military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said that it was examining the possibility that some of the hostages had been ******* together months earlier while ******** forces were operating in the Khan Younis area.

On Tuesday, Adm. Hagari was asked again about how the hostages ***** at a news conference. He repeated what he had said in June — that the “hostages were ******* while our troops were operating in Khan Younis” — and added that a forensic examination would reveal more.

******** news media reported

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that initial assessments suggested that five of the six hostages had ***** from suffocation when an ******** airstrike hit another tunnel, causing the one they were in to fill with carbon dioxide. The Times could not confirm those reports.

The recovery of six ***** hostages this week emphasized the urgent need for a cease-***** deal, families of the captives said in their statement on Thursday. The forum said the evidence the hostages may have been shot “serves as further proof of the cruelty of the terrorists,” and it condemned the government’s ******** to reach a cease-***** agreement that would lead to the return of all hostages and an end to the fighting in Gaza.

“In every minute that the deal is not completed, another ******** could lose their life,” the forum said. “After 10 and a half months of war in which the hostages have been suffering, tortured, and dying, it is clear to all that the return of the hostages is only possible through a deal.”

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