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Israel must agree a ceasefire deal now and bring the remaining hostages home “before they all die”, families and friends said on Tuesday as the bodies of six more captives – including a British-Israeli citizen – were retrieved from Gaza.
Nadav Popplewell, 51, who was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was retrieved by Israeli forces in an overnight operation along with Yagev Buchshtab, 35; Alexander Dancyg, 76; Avraham Munder, 79; Yoram Metzger, 80; and Chaim Perry, 80.
“We need to start bringing people home alive and not dead – and that needs to happen soon,” said Adele Raemer, a British-Israeli teacher who lived three doors down from Mr Popplewell’s family in Kibbutz Nirim and was a family friend.
“The Israeli military has already done a lot of damage in Gaza, and I expect …