Oron Shaul

IDF, Shin Bet reveal details of secret Gaza City mission to recover Oron Shaul's remains

In a series of clandestine operations, the IDF and Shin Bet put together more and more pieces of a complex puzzle until they located Shaul's remains. 

IDF soliers operate in the Gaza Strip, September 28, 2025.
 IDF soldiers from Division 162 operate in the Gaza Strip on September 12 2024.

IDF officer recounts Jabalya IED blast, mission to recover Oron Shaul's body

 Major-General Rasan Alian visits the family of St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul. January 19, 2025.

'Our Oron has returned home': COGAT, Golani chiefs visit Oron Shaul's family

A hostage poster of Oron Shaul is seen as people gather in solidarity with hostage families at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, January 18, 2025.

Bringing Oron Shaul home proves Israel’s unbreakable bond with its soldiers – editorial


Hamas: We are flexible on a prisoner swap with Israel

Sinwar said that the indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel over a prisoner exchange were suspended after the start of the political crisis in Israel.

The parents of fallen IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin with Members of Knesset hold signs reading "they're this close" at a protest near the Gaza border, calling for the bodies of their son and another IDF soldier to be returned

‘Get our sons out of Gaza just like you’re freeing Naama from Russia’

Hamas is also holding two civilian captives who wandered into Gaza: Ethiopian-Israeli Avera Mengistu and Bedouin-Israeli Hisham al-Sayed.

Leah Goldin, mother of Hadar, speaks at a press conference, August 5, 2018

Israel moving towards ‘calm’ agreement with Hamas

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh next to his destroyed office (REUTERS/Handout)

Katz: No arrangement with Hamas without returning Goldin and Shaul

“There will not be an arrangement without the return of the captives and missing soldiers, but there could be calm,” he told Army Radio.

St.Sgt. Oron Shaul, whose remains are held by Hamas in Gaza

"We just need closure," plead friends of missing IDF soldier Oron Shaul

Friends of missing IDF soldier Oron Shaul urge Hamas: "It's time to solve our problems, come to the negotiating table."

Oron Shaul, who has been missing in Gaza since 2014

Netanyahu won’t transfer terrorists' bodies to Gaza until MIAs returned

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "No change in policy of targeted assassinations."

Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi in Tel Aviv on Tuesday

Leah Goldin: Tell me what the government is doing to bring our boys home

"They've been telling me what they won't do for five years, but they don't tell me what they are doing."

Leah Goldin, mother of missing soldier Hadar Goldin, at a Jerusalem press confrence July 5, 2018

Danon to push UN to pressure Hamas to return captives in UNSC meeting today

"We're used to decisions being used against us. This time we want exactly the opposite."

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Danny Danon speaks during a meeting of the UN Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, February 20, 2018

Leah Goldin leaves Netanyahu meeting in tears

"Even after this meeting, it's not clear to us why Netanyahu doesn't make the return of the boys a condition in all the talks for rehabilitating and upgrading Gaza that are happening every day.”

Leah Goldin, the mother of slain IDF soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin

Goldin on Gaza truce: Bennett 'is campaigning on the blood of our sons'

Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds TV station reported on Tuesday morning that as part of the truce agreement between Hamas and Israel, there will be a prisoner exchange, according to Ynet.

Leah Goldin, mother of missing soldier Hadar Goldin, at a Jerusalem press confrence July 5, 2018