Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an apology to the families of the six hostages found dead over the weekend after being executed by Hamas.
“My heart and the heart of the nation is shattered into pieces,” Netanyahu said at a special press conference on Monday, according to The Jerusalem Post.
“I ask for your forgiveness that we did not succeed in bringing them home alive,” he said, addressing the slain hostages’ families.
“We were close, but we did not make it.”
The six hostages — US-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, Eden Yerushalmi, 24 and Almog Sarusi, 27 — were found dead in a tunnel in Rafah on Saturday.
They are believed to have been killed two to three days before their bodies were discovered.
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