The IDF said this meant that if the Hamas guards had not already shot the six hostages, the air force bombing probably would have killed them.

More than a thousand people gathered on Long Island Tuesday to remember a fallen Israel soldier originally from Plainview. Family and loved ones were moved to tears at Midway Jewish Center in Syosset.

IDF sources admitted that this meant that if the Hamas guards had not already shot the six hostages, the air force bombing probably would have killed them.

Congregants of a Plainview temple came together in grief Monday night. Four hundred twenty-three days after Oct. 7, Ronen and Orna Neutra learned their son, Omer, had been killed by Hamas after all. He was one of seven Americans held by the terrorist organization.