IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari informed the families on Saturday of the six hostages who were murdered last month by Hamas while in captivity and that the terrorists who held them were eliminated by Israeli forces.
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The hostages they killed were Almog Sarousi, Carmel Gat, Alex Lubanov, Uri Danino, Eden Yerushalmi, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Hagari said that the day after the hostages were murdered, "troops from the 162nd Division identified two terrorists emerging from an underground tunnel shaft in the Tel al-Sultan area and eliminated them during an encounter."
Methods to find the terrorists responsible
The IDF was able to determine that the two terrorists held the six hostages by using DNA findings that linked them to the tunnel where the hostages were murdered.
"Based on the findings and the information available to us, these terrorists that were killed were the same terrorists who were in the tunnel where the bodies of the six hostages were discovered," Hagari continued. "The findings show they were there when they were murdered and we are investigating their involvement in the murder. Should we obtain further information, we will first update the families and then the public."
Hagari then finished his speech by saying that the IDF will "pursue and reach everyone responsible for this heinous murder, and we will not stop until we reach them all."