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Gvili's parents, Itzik and Talik, express pain and gratitude as their son's body returns to Israel for burial, marking a bittersweet end to the 843-day ordeal of the hostages in Gaza

The IDF recovered the body of Staff Sgt Maj Ran Gvili from Gaza, more than two years after he was killed fighting Hamas on October 7.

The ISA reported that this information led to the operation in which Ran was ultimately recovered. As part of the operation, more than 700 graves were opened and more than 250 bodies examined, until Ran was found in a Shifaa hospital body bag with his police-issue uniform, shoes, and belt still intact.

Clinging to 'that tiny bit of hope,' the family had continued to speak of their son in the present tense, and never stopped battling for his return The post The Gvili family’s hopeful, dignified struggle to bring Ran home appeared first on The Times of Israel.