Hamas announces it will return body of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, held since 2014

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "Israel demands his return immediately," the official said. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen Eyal Zamir visited the home of Leah and Simcha Goldin, Hadar's parents, on Saturday night.
50% : The family said in a statement that they were awaiting official confirmation of the return of Hadar's body to Israel. Israeli media reported on Saturday that Israel had allowed Hamas and Red Cross personnel to search in an area under Israeli control in Rafah to locate Goldin's remains.
49% : (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) The military wing of Hamas announced Sunday that the body of IDF officer Lt. Hadar Goldin, held by the terror organization since 2014, will be returned to Israel at 2 p.m., a move that would bring an end to his family's long struggle to recover his remains and bring him home for burial.
48% : Israel will conduct forensic testing on the remains before confirming their identity.
48% : " The United States has reportedly been pressuring Israel to allow the trapped terror operatives safe passage for Goldin's return.
47% : At 9:05 a.m. on August 1, 2014, just over an hour after the start of a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire in the war brokered by the UN and the US, Hamas gunmen emerged from a tunnel in the southeastern part of Rafah and attacked troops of the Givati Brigade's reconnaissance unit, killing three soldiers, including Goldin -- whose body was dragged by the terror operatives back into their tunnel.
46% : " After Hamas's claim Saturday that it recovered Goldin's body, Israel indicated that it expected Hamas to immediately return the body, as required by the ceasefire, with an unnamed diplomatic official telling media outlets that Israel viewed "with great severity" Hamas's violation of the terms by its delay of the return of Goldin's body.
40% : According to a White House plan reported by Channel 12, after Goldin's body is returned, the terrorists would surrender and hand over their arms, Israel would pardon them, and they would then go into exile or into the Hamas-controlled area of Gaza.
38% : Various indirect talks were held over the years, often with Egypt serving as an intermediary, but they failed to yield any results, as Hamas was reportedly demanding the mass release of Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for the four men, and Israel was refusing to give in.
36% : In exchange, Israel has released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in its custody -- some serving life sentences for deadly terror attacks -- and returned the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians. Givati fighter Goldin was killed and abducted during the 2014 war in Gaza, also known as Operation Protective Edge.
34% : The war was triggered on October 7, 2023, when Hamas led a devastating invasion of southern Israel that killed 1,200 people and during which terrorists abducted 251 people as hostages to the Gaza Strip.

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