Overview
- Authorities said the remains returned Wednesday night were identified Thursday as those of 21-year-old Joshua Loitu Mollel.
- Mollel was an agriculture student from Tanzania who had arrived in Israel less than three weeks before October 7 for a training program.
- The Hostages' Families Forum said he was killed on the morning of the October 7 attack while working at the Kibbutz Nahal Oz dairy farm and his body was taken to Gaza.
- Following the identification at Abu Kabir, Israeli and Foreign Ministry officials notified his parents in Tanzania.
- Advocacy groups noted that other deceased hostages are still believed to be in Gaza as exchanges continue.