Although the IDF notified the family last year that Itay Chen had not survived, they clung to the hope that he may still be alive. Staff-Sergeant Itay Chen's remains were returned to Israel on Tuesday night.

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday informed the family of Staff Sgt. Itay Chen, an Israeli-American citizen who was taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza, that his body has been returned to Israel.

Ruby and Hagit Chen express relief after their son’s body is returned from Gaza, but call for answers and accountability over Hamas’s October 7 attack The post ‘There is peace for the soul’: Parents of slain ex-hostage Itay Chen now ready to grieve appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Notably, this leaves Hadar Goldin as the last remaining murdered hostage who was taken during active IDF service. The remains of Gaza hostage IDF St.

Our personal journey may have reached its conclusion, but not the hostage families’ collective journey - we will NOT rest, will NOT stop, until the last hostage returns home”

The father of Staff Sgt. Itay Chen, whose body was returned from Gaza by Hamas on Tuesday, says the family can now start to move forward with a sense of closure, but that the fight goes on to secure the release of the remaining hostages.