Overcome with grief, Adi Marciano broke down in tears as she placed her hand on her daughter Noa s coffin during an emotional service for the soldier in the central Israeli city of Modiin.
Hamas has claimed Zionist hostages were not held captive in hospitals but taken there to save their lives after Israeli forces recovered the bodies of two prisoners in Gaza s Al-Shifa hospital.
The new figure includes 5,000 children, according to Hamas, and comes hours after Israeli soldiers found the remains of kidnapped female soldier Noa Marciano, who was 19.