JERUSALEM, Nov 8, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israel has identified the latest body returned from Gaza by Hamas and Islamic Jihad as Israeli-Argentinian hostage Lior Rudaeff, the Israeli army said Saturday.

"Following the completion of the identification process by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine... IDF (military) representatives informed the family of Lior Rudaeff that he had been returned for burial," the military said in a statement.

Rudaeff, 61, was killed in Nir Yitzhak kibbutz while trying to protect his community with four other residents on October 7, 2023 during the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war, and his body was taken to the Palestinian territory that day.