Israel soldier Noa Marciano’s body found; Afghanistan’s peace appeal to UN

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday that the body of 19-year-old corporal, Noa Marciano, was recovered from the Gaza Strip.

IDF said that soldiers from the 603rd Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade recovered Marciano’s body on Thursday from a building near Al Shifa Hospital. The body was taken to Israel for identification, and Marciano’s funeral is scheduled on Friday.

Marciano served in the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps of the 414th Regiment in the IDF and was an army spotter at Kibbutz Nahal Oz. Marciano was one of 240 people taken hostage by Hamas. According to the 19-year-old’s mother, Adi Marciano, who travelled to the United States to raise awareness about the hostages, her daughter was hiding inside a bomb shelter in the Nahal Oz kibbutz in southern Israel when she was taken by Hamas. On October 7, Noa reportedly called her mother from the bomb shelter where she was seeking refuge from the gunfire after Hamas attacked Kibbutz.