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Updated 19 Oct, 2023 12:42pm

11 days on, medics identify boy and woman ‘incinerated’ in Hamas onslaught

A boy and a woman who were among the scores of people killed by Hamas fighters in an Israeli border village have been located and identified, 11 days after the cross-border attack from Gaza, the medical assistance and casualty recovery group Zaka said.

Remains of the two newly discovered victims were found during searches of a house that had been burned down in Beeri, a kibbutz, or communal farm, Zaka said late on Wednesday.

“Their bodies were incinerated after they were murdered,” it said in a statement, without providing names for the two or elaborating on any possible relationship between them.

Israeli officials had previously given a death toll of at least 108 for Beeri — around 10 per cent of its population.

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