ISRAELI student Sahar Baruch has been killed in an alleged “failed rescue mission” two months after he was kidnapped by Hamas.
Hamas claimed that Baruch, 25, died during an attempted hostage rescue operation on Friday night.
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But Baruch’s kibbutz said he was murdered by the terror group, which took hundreds of Israelis and foreigners hostage on October 7.
Engineering student Baruch was captured after running back into his grandmother’s burning house on the kibbutz to find his brother Idan’s inhaler.
Idan and the brothers’ grandmother had fled the house because the smoke was triggering his asthma.
They were both brutally killed by Hamas, while Sahar was taken hostage.
Kibbutz Be’eri said: “It is with deep sorrow and a broken heart that we announce the murder of Sahar Baruch.
“We will demand the return of Sahar’s body as part of any hostage exchange agreement.”
Hamas’s military wing claimed that Baruch was killed in a firefight as it fended off the IDF raid.
In an English-language statement, it said: “A fierce gunfight broke out between the Al-Qassam fighters and the Israeli special forces.
“This left many soldiers…
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