Hamas has said that a guard who shot dead an Israeli hostage acted “in revenge” against the group’s protocols. The Israeli military said the remains of the hostage in question had been returned in a special operation at the end of November last year. The military said that the body was recovered in collaboration with internal security agency Shin Bet, but did not identify the killed captive.Hamas’s military wing said that the guard acted “in revenge” after hearing his children had died in an Israeli attack.
