Final missing Israeli victim declared dead

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Final missing ******** victim declared *****

The last person listed as missing from the ****** ******* on ******* 10 months ago has been identified as *******, ******** authorities say.

Bilha Yinon, 75, was murdered along with her husband, Yaakov, at their home in Netiv Haasara, when hundreds of gunmen from Gaza attacked communities in southern ******* on 7 October.

The Yinons’ home was burnt to the ground, and while Yaakov’s ******** were found, there was no trace of Bilha, although she was known to have been with him at the time.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) said it had now determined “after complex testing” of evidence in the area of the house that Bilha was *******.

Previously even fingertip searches in the ash and debris had ******* to find as much as a trace of Bilha’s DNA.

The couple’s children had long accepted their mother was murdered on the day of the *******, but her ****** has only now been officially declared “based on a combination of findings”, the IDF said.

Bilha and Yaakov were together in their house, on the edge of the border with Gaza, when it was attacked on the morning of the invasion.

One of the couple’s daughters, Maayan, said her father WhatsApped at the time to say he and Bilha were in a safe room and could hear ********* and rockets.

“The house got a direct hit and was on ***** within minutes,” Maayan told ******** TV in February.

Virtually the whole structure was reduced to ash.

Writing on X, Maox Yinon a son of the couple, said

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“They did not **** for this war. They ***** for peace.

“I have no doubt in my heart that [Bilha Yinon] would be so proud of the journey my family are on – with ******** and ************ partners – to create a path to peace, through hope and reconciliation,” he said.

****** gunmen ******* about 1,200 people in the unprecedented *******, and took 251 others back to Gaza as hostages. The ******* triggered a massive ******** military offensive on Gaza and the ongoing war.

More than 39,600 Palestinians have been ******* in the ******** campaign, according to Gaza’s ******-run health ministry.

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