Oldest Israeli hostage & Holocaust survivor Shlomo Mansour, 86, killed by Hamas as peace deal on brink of collapse
THE oldest Israeli hostage and Holocause survivor Shlomo Mansour, 86, was killed by Hamas as the peace deal sits on the brink of collapse.
The IDF confirmed that Shlomo may have been killed during the October 7 onslaught.
Shlomo was murdered in Kibbutz Kissufim, with his body taken by Hamas terrorists to the Gaza Strip - where it is still being held.
His death was declared by health experts and members of the rabbinate following intelligence that the IDF claims to have obtained in recent months.
Shlomo's granddaughter Safir has spoken out about his devastating death, explaining that he survived another massacre in Iraq as a little boy.
But decades later, he is believed to have been killed in the October 7 onslaught.
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She said that more than a handful of terrorists broke into his house who took him out, slapped him in the face and beat him before handcuffing him and taking him away.
His wife Mazal Mansour, with whom he lived for 60 years, managed to escape the attack.
The couple have five children together.
Meanwhile Shlomo was kidnapped into Gaza in his own car, weighing only 57 kilograms and without his hearing aids.
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Of the 76 hostages remaining on the Gaza Strip, the IDF have confirmed the death of 36.
A statement from his kibbutz read: "With heavy hearts, we, the members of the kibbutz, received the news this morning about the murder of our dear friend, Shlomo Mansour, 86 years old, who was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Kissufim during the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023."
The kibbutz also called on the Israeli government as well as world leaders "to continue acting with determination to bring back all the hostages, both the living and the dead, and not to allow painful stories like Shlomo's to repeat themselves".
