Joint statement to the IDF and Shin Bet spokesmen:
It has been permitted to be published that in a special covert operation by the IDF and Shin Bet, the abducted pilot, the late Sergeant Oron Shaul, was rescued. He fell in battle in Sajaiya on July 20, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, and his body was abducted by the terrorist organization Hamas.
Efforts to recover him, including the collection of information and intelligence by the Prisoners of War and Missing Persons Command and the Special Operations Division in the Intelligence Division, continued throughout the last decade and even more intensely during the war.
After an identification process carried out by the Forensic Institute of Medicine and the Military Rabbinate, IDF and Shin Bet representatives delivered a message to the family this morning.
The IDF and Shin Bet share the family's grief and will continue to accompany them.
The IDF and Shin Bet will continue to work towards the return of all the abductees and their return home.
Give thanks to Him, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever.
Very exciting.
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Thank you to the soldiers who contributed to this move.
Finally💔😭