The IDF and ISA have confirmed that over the past few days, as part of an IDF and ISA operation in the Gaza Strip, the troops located and recovered findings associated with the body of the Manny Menachem Goddard, who was murdered and kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization on October 7, 2023.
Despite the recovered findings, his body is still being held in the Gaza Strip.
The findings were retrieved from an Islamic Jihad outpost area in Rafah.
"After an identification process conducted by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Israel Police, IDF representatives informed the Goddard family and will continue to support them," a statement read. "The IDF continues to make efforts to locate and fully recover his body."
During a Saturday night rally in Tel Aviv, Bar Goddard, Manny's daughter, spoke about the news.
"I want to share with you that there was an attempt to retrieve my father's body - but it failed," she said. "The officer who is accompanying us told us that IDF forces succeeded in retrieving from an Islamic Jihad post a refrigerator which had the remains of my father, but he said that the operation did not succeed."
Turning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, she added, "We, the Goddard family, demand of you: Don't send any soldier to endanger his life to retrieve our father's body. We will not agree that any additional family join the circle of the bereaved in an attempt to bring him back."
"We demand that you bring him and all the other hostages back - in a single deal. That is what needs to happen - now."