What to know about the 5 hostages whose remains are still in Gaza

JERUSALEM AP Since the U S -brokered ceasefire in Gaza began on Oct Palestinian militants have published the remains of hostages held for the past two years But the process of returning the bodies of the five remaining hostages as called for under the truce deal is progressing slowly Hamas says it has not been able to reach all of the remains because they are buried under rubble left by Israel s two-year offensive in Gaza Israel has accused the militants of dragging their feet and threatened to resume military operations or withhold humanitarian aid if all remains are not returned In the majority of newest release Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas in the militants Oct attack that started the war He was identified as Lior Rudaeff who was when he was killed In return Israel has disclosed the bodies of Palestinians back to Gaza Israel has not provided details on their identities and it is unclear if they were people killed in Israel during the Oct attack Palestinian detainees who died in Israeli custody or bodies taken from Gaza by Israeli troops during the war Vitality officers in Gaza have struggled to identify the bodies without access to DNA kits and have identified of the bodies Here s a look at the hostages whose remains have not been returned Meny Godard Meny Godard was a professional soccer participant before enlisting in the Israeli military and serving in the Mideast War according to Kibbutz Be eri He served in a variety of different positions in the kibbutz including at its printing press On the morning of Oct Godard and his wife Ayelet were forced out of their home after it was set on fire She hid in the bushes for a number of hours before militants discovered her and killed her She was able to tell her children that Meny had been killed before she died The family held a double funeral for the couple They are survived by four children and six grandchildren Hadar Goldin Hadar Goldin s remains are the only ones that have been held in Gaza since before the war The Israeli soldier was killed on Aug two hours after a ceasefire took effect ending the that year s war between Israel and Hamas Based on evidence uncovered in the tunnel where Goldin s body was taken including a blood-soaked shirt and prayer fringes the military rapidly determined that he had been killed in the attack Goldin is survived by his parents and three siblings including a twin He had proposed to his fiancee before he was killed Earlier this year Goldin s family marked days since his body was taken The military retrieved the body of another soldier who was killed in the war earlier this year Ran Gvili Ran Gvili who served in an elite police unit was recovering from a broken shoulder he sustained in a motorcycle accident but rushed to assist fellow officers on Oct After helping people escape from the Nova music festival he was killed fighting at another location and his body was taken to Gaza The military authenticated his death four months later He is survived by his parents and a sister Dror Or Dror Or was a father of three who worked at the dairy farm on Kibbutz Be eri for years rising to the position of manager He was an expert cheesemaker according to family and friends On Oct the family was hiding in their safe room when militants lit the house on fire Dror and his wife Yonat were killed Two of their children Noam who was then and Alma then were abducted and distributed during the November ceasefire Sudthisak Rinthalak Sudthisak Rinthalak was an agricultural worker from Thailand who had been employed at Kibbutz Be eri According to media reports Rinthalak was divorced and had been working in Israel since A total of workers from Thailand were kidnapped on Oct the largest group of foreigners to be held in captivity Bulk of them were issued in the first and second ceasefires The Thai Foreign Ministry has explained in addition to the hostages Thais have been killed during the war A previous version of this story misstated Noam s age in penultimate paragraph Follow AP s war coverage at https apnews com hub israel-hamas-war Source