Firends place flowers on the grave of Israeli soldier Sgt. Kiril Brodski, 19, who was Killed during the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and whose body was taken into the Gaza Strip, during his funeral at the Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2024. Israeli forces retrieved the remains of five Israelis, killed during Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel, whose bodies had been taken to the Gaza Strip, the military said on July 25. It said the bodies of Maya Goren as well as soldiers Tomer Ahimas and Kiril Brodski, along with Ravid Aryeh Katz and Oren Goldin -- military reservists -- had been returned to Israel following a rescue operation. The military said the soldiers were killed in combat while fighting the militants on October 7. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)