An Israeli-Argentinian national, previously presumed hostage, was killed during the Hamas attack on October 7

“His body had been kidnapped towards Gaza by the terrorists,” announced the Hostage Families Forum, the main Israeli association of relatives.

The Hostage Families Forum announced the death of an Israeli-Argentinian national, Lior Rudaeff, on Tuesday May 7. This man, until now, was presumed to be a hostage of Hamas. But this association announces “with pain and a broken heart having established” that the sixty-year-old “was assassinated on October 7 and his body kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas terrorists”.

“The Israeli government has an important moral duty to pursue all avenues in the current negotiations to bring back Lior” in Israel, because “he deserves a dignified burial in his homeland”, declares in a press release the Forum, the main Israeli association of relatives of hostages. The government “must also obtain the rapid return of all living hostages”continues the press release.

Member of a kibbutz security team

Bi-national Israeli and Argentinian, Lior Rudaeff was a member of the security team of kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, targeted on October 7 by Hamas fighters, during the unprecedented attack carried out in southern Israel by the Palestinian movement since the Gaza strip. “For four decades he had been a volunteer ambulance driver, first to step forward and extend a helping hand to anyone in need.”adds the Forum which describes it as “Argentinian at heart” And “passionate cyclist”.

Around 250 people were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. According to Israel, 128 are still in the Gaza Strip, including 36 considered dead. Israel and Hamas each sent a delegation to Cairo on Tuesday, where indirect negotiations are being held around a draft truce agreement in the Gaza Strip, ravaged by seven months of war.