Body of Israeli Hostage Elad Katzir Murdered In Captivity by Palestinian Islamic Jihad Recovered By IDF
Also, Israel gears up for ‘direct’ Iranian attack.
The Israeli Special Forces extracted the body of the 47-year-old hostage, Elad Katzir, who was murdered by the terrorists in Gaza. “The operation to retrieve the body was carried out by the Commando Brigade, following intelligence provided by the Shin Bet security agency and the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate,” The Times of Israel reported Saturday.
Elad, who was forced to appear in two propaganda videos during the captivity, was reportedly murdered by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an Iran-sponsored terrorist group which took part in the Hamas-led October 7 massacre.
Elad’s body was recovered from Khan Yunis, a town just a couple of miles from the last-standing terrorist stronghold of Rafah where Hamas’s top leadership is hiding behind nearly 100 remaining Israeli hostages. “The body of the abductee Elad Katzir, who according to intelligence was murdered in captivity by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization, was rescued overnight from Khan Yunis and returned to Israeli territory,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF )said in a statement on Saturday. “His body was located based on precise IDF and ISA [the Israel Security Agency also known as Shin Bet] intelligence, and an accurate identification of IDF ground troops.”
Elad was taken hostage from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his 78-year-old mother Hanna, His father Avraham was murdered besides other 39 residents of the small kibbutz community.
‘During the October 7th massacre, Elad Katzir was abducted by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization from Kibbutz Nir Oz. His mother, Hanna, was also abducted by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization and released on November 24 as part of the agreement for the release of abductees, and his father, Avraham, was murdered in the kibbutz,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported.
The military vowed to bring back the bodies of all dead Israeli hostages. “Our mission is to locate and return the abductees home. The IDF and the ISA are working in full coordination with the relevant national and security bodies and will continue until the task is complete,” the IDF said.
Of 135 remaining Israeli hostages in captivity since October 7, some 35 of them are believed to be dead — many of them executed by the terrorists.
“Based on various sources of information, Israel has declared at least 35 hostages as dead in Gaza captivity,” the Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. the newspaper noted that in many cases “hostages whose bodies were recovered bore signs of execution.”
Israel preparing for ‘direct’ Iranian attack
Israel military and security services remain vigilant as Iran threatens to carry out a ‘direct attack’ aimed at the country after a series of alleged Israeli strikes killed several Iranian Islamic Guard (IRGC) terror operatives and Hezbollah commanders in Syria and Lebanon.
According to U.S. intelligence, Tehran may launch a large-scale kamikaze drone incursion into the Israeli airspace. “The U.S. has picked up intelligence that Iran is planning a retaliatory attack that would include a swarm of Shahed loitering drones and cruise missiles,” the CBS reported early Saturday.
The terror threat issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi were renewed on Saturday by the regime’s army chief Mohammad Bagheri.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday warned Tehran against carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel. “We will know how to defend ourselves, and we will act according to the simple principle: that those who harm us or plan to harm us, we will harm,” Netanyahu said.
The Times of Israel reported the Iranian army chief’s threat:
Iran on Saturday again threatened retaliation for the deaths of seven Revolutionary Guards in a strike on Damascus, with the army chief saying his country’s enemies will “regret” the killings and threatening to exact “maximum damage.”
Tehran has vowed to avenge Monday’s air strike on the Syrian capital it blamed on Israel, which has not commented.
The attack leveled the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in Damascus, killing seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members including two generals.
Iran’s response “will be carried out at the right time, with the necessary precision and planning, and with maximum damage to the enemy so that they regret their action,” Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri said on Saturday.
IDF eliminates Hamas’s ‘Internal Security’ chief
The Israeli armed forces, backed by the Shin Bet security agency, eliminated a senior Hamas operative overseeing the terror group’s ‘Internal Security’ arm, the IDF disclosed on Saturday. The slain terrorist was responsible for past attacks in Israel and was directing operations against Israeli military operating in Gaza.
“IAF fighter jets struck and eliminated Akram Abd Al-Rahman Husein Salamah, a senior terrorist operative of Hamas’ Internal Security,” the IDF said in a press release. “Akram held several key positions in the terrorist organization, including Deputy Head of the Khan Yunis District.”
The slain terror operative was “responsible for planning and executing significant terror attacks in Israeli territory, as well as directing terror activities in the Gaza Strip designated to damage IDF counterterrorism activities,” the military noted.
Senior Hamas Operative Responsible for Plotting Terror Attacks Eliminated by the IDF 💥
IDF and ISA conducted a joint operation targeting Akram Abd Al-Rahman Husein Salamah, a senior Hamas operative responsible for planning, directing, and executing significant terror attacks.… pic.twitter.com/otsUpGIMM6
— Adam Albilya – אדם אלביליה (@AdamAlbilya) April 6, 2024
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Please take note of your usage of the terrorist’s terminology for propaganda purposes. Terrorists do NOT “execute” people, as you quoted. They murder people in cold blood.
By quoting such things without the correction of the language being used by the savage, barbarian murderers you assist the terrorist criminals in seeking legitimacy. Please stop it, and correct that usage every time it’s seen.
It was an execution….. A “lawful:” killing sanctioned under Islamic Law. Without the approval of Islamic law it would be “just” a murder. I may be wrong and Milhouse can bring out his electric wet blanket to admonish me.
See my note to “diver64” below regarding the conferring of legitimacy. Even Sharia law requires some type of hearing before an imam before sentencing. There is NO legitimacy, there were NO hearings, there were NO crimes committed by the murdered people, other than simply existing.
An imam here…. an imam there… everywhere an imam.
“In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old [non-Muslim] girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.”
Where is the imam? The fighter is absolutely correct that rape is permitted if not encouraged. When Mohammed (PBUH..or else) killed the Jews at Khaybar…where was the imam…. but since The Prophet (PBUH..or else) is perfect….follow his actions. Do hearings only apply to other Muslims.. and not the “People of the Book?”
Thank you for the feedback. I am quoting JPost.
Yes, and I acknowledged you were quoting. You can always insert {sic] behind the word “execute” to show that it is in error. At least the headline of your post was correct in using the word “murdered”.
The way the collectivist/statist/authoritarians, including the Islamo-fascists, attempt to manipulate our language itself is something that must be guarded against.
I cannot think any level of response to Iran and their proxies would be excessive. While neutralizing Iran would not stop all attacks immediately, it would starve terrorists.0ver time. So nail Iran first, then mop up the rest.
I think you are getting a little silly. Execute has many meanings for people and murdering someone in cold blood is one of them.
Yes, “execute” may have other meanings, as in, “to execute a plan”. This is not what was made clear by the context of the statement quoted.
You are either remarkably obtuse, or evil Possibly both?
To execute someone generally entails some type of legal proceeding to determine whether or not the condemned person has personally committed some kind of crime. It usually entails some form of legitimacy conferred on the proceeding by a society. In these instances, the kidnapped people (men, women, children, elderly) were guilty of simply existing in the minds of the Islamo-fascists.
Keep defending them…unless you convert to Islam, you’re on their list.
There are still American Citizens being held by HAMAS. And, Biden just ignores that fact.
News doesn’t even mention
Fox would do itself well to have a countdown
But the. They are really a globalist business and American prisoners mean nothing to them
I find it odd that not only the WH but the WH Press Corp never mention it. I would think that Peter would ask on a regular basis and the Mop Headed Idiot would refuse to answer but he could at least ask
RIP Elad
Tehran is itching to get a nuke up their ass, and I will find it hard to blame Israel when they do. I’m not Jewish, but I roomed with a Jew in college whose grandmother had survived the camps. How any sane person could support Hamas is beyond me. I understand that most of the young people protesting have no idea what they are doing other than being trendy, but those who are doing this just to support the fringe left are nothing more than speed bumps to me.
They are infatuated with nukes, so give them several, they they can study how the reaction progresses.
There is an interesting article in Haaretz (published yesterday) that describes what the thinking was of Hamas prior to the invasion. The tl;dr is Hamas leadership, since the return of Sinwar, has been full-on, batshit crazy. Like its benefactor state Iran, it’s wholly embraced its End of Days deathcult identity, so deluded that they actually believed they would conquer Israel.
You cannot reason with maniacs. You cannot negotiate a truce with a group that believes the only way to its Promised Land is on path paved with your corpses. If you’re an Israeli, ‘Ceasefire Now’ is nothing less than compact with your destroyer….to destroy you. It’s terrifying there seems to be some cohort of Israelis who still don’t get it…although that cohort appears to be much smaller than it was before October 7th.
I assume it likely that the US government and National Command Authority will consider the murder of Elad Katzir to be what they consider an inducement for Israel to surrender to HAMAS and Iran, I am pretty sure that Israel will consider it the opposite.
Subotai Bahadur
This makes me so sad and angry. Elad was a little older than me — I turn 47 in May.
“Israel … vigilant as Iran threatens to carry out a ‘direct attack’ aimed at the country… after … Israeli strikes killed several Iranian Islamic Guard (IRGC) terror operatives and Hezbollah commanders in Syria and Lebanon.”
So, commanders and operatives doing “indirect”? things in Syria and Lebanon. Shot themselves right in the deniability, the Mullahs did, did they not?
Have they done “Lay off the Houthi’s or we’ll respond.” yet? I might have missed it.
I know they’ve done “Lay off Hezbollah, or else.”
The Iranian Overlords haven’t quite gotten the message as yet. This round Israel is responding to ordinance aimed at killing their folks as all whoever launched it from wherever from.
If Iran directly attacks Israel it will quickly be the end of their Islamic state. Therefore, I doubt that a direct attack is coming.