Israeli authorities have reported that they have identified the bodies of Noya Dan, a 12-year-old Israeli girl with autismand his grandmother Carmela, 80, who were on the list of hostages taken by the Islamist group Hamas during the attack against Israel on October 7.

“We are devastated to announce that the bodies of Noya and her grandmother Carmela were found yesterday. Our hearts are broken,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on its official X account, formerly Twitter, without giving details about where they were found the bodies and under what circumstances.

Last Sunday, the Ministry said that the girl, a Harry Potter fan, had been “kidnapped from her home by Hamas terrorists and taken to Gaza“.

Then, the writer JK Rowling, author of the saga, wrote: “For obvious reasons, this image struck me.. “May Noya and all the hostages taken by Hamas return soon and safely to their families.”

The war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7 when the Islamist group launched a barrage of rockets and at the same time infiltrated more than 1,200 of its militiamen into Israeli soil, who tortured, massacred and kidnapped nearly a thousand villagers. bordering the Gaza Strip.

Until now, Israel cThere are 1,400 dead, including 306 soldiers, more than 4,000 injured, some 100,000 displaced and an unknown number missing. In addition, the Israeli Army has notified the families of 203 hostages that their loved ones are detained in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Army spokesman Daniel Hagari reported this Thursday, specifying that it is not a definitive figure.

On your side, Hamas claims that there are 250 kidnapped200 in their hands and 50 in the power of other militias, several of which have died during the intense bombings that Israel carries out daily on the Palestinian enclave and which have left at least 3,478 dead and more than 12,000 injured, most of them children and women. .

Since the war began, the Army has been scanning the Gaza border area in search of hidden militiamen and bodies of missing Israelis, many of whom are still waiting to be identified.