The IDF publishes new data on the abducted and missing:

The IDF allows the publication that out of about 200 abductees for whom there is information about their presence in the territory of the Gaza Strip -
A couple dozen (less than 30) are children up to the age of 18.
About 10-20 of them are elderly people aged 60+.
Most of the abductees are alive, but there are also bodies that were abducted to Gaza.

In addition, there are another 100-200 Israelis who are defined as missing, and there is no information on their whereabouts. This is compared to about 3,000 people who were declared missing on the first day of the war, and since then their number has been greatly reduced when certain information about their whereabouts has arrived (they were found alive, found dead, or known to have been kidnapped).

The IDF emphasizes that there are quite a few complexities that make it difficult to locate information regarding the missing. Among other things, many bodies that are in Shura camp have not yet been identified, bodies that have not yet been collected from the area, and the army is still conducting ground raids in the area of ​​the fence with the aim of collecting more bodies.

The IDF emphasizes that they adhere to the principle of complete transparency with the families, and pass on to them any information they have about their loved ones. There are many teams that are in daily contact with the families of the abductees, but teams have not yet arrived for all the families of the missing, and there is an effort to do so in the next day.