The IDF and Shin Bet on Motzei Shabbos released a joint statement saying that forces in recent days “located findings belonging to the body of the hostage Manny Godard, H’yd, who was murdered and abducted by Islamic Jihad on October 7.” “Despite the findings that were returned, his body is still being held in the Gaza Strip,” the statement continued, adding that the findings were found at an Islamic Jihad post area in Rafah. Manny, H’yd, and his wife Ayelet, H’yd, residents of Kibbutz Bee’ri, were murdered during the October 7 assault, and Manny’s body was abducted to Gaza. Manny’s daughter, Bar Godard, spoke at a protest on Motzei Shabbos in Tel Aviv, saying: “I want to share with you that there was an attempt to extract my father’s body – but it failed. The officer who is accompanying us said that IDF forces managed to extract a refrigerator from an Islamic Jihad outpost containing findings of my father, but said that the operation [to extract his body] was unsuccessful.” She added that she and her family demand that the government should “not send any soldiers to risk their lives to return our father’s body. We will not agree to any other family joining the circle of bereavement in an attempt to bring him back.” She added: “We demand that he and all the other hostages be returned – in one deal. That’s what needs to happen, now.” (YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)