Israel says it has found the remains of two hostages in Gaza.

Israeli military officials announced Tuesday that they have found the remains of two hostages captured during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and have repatriated the bodies.

The remains of the hostages, Eden Zakaria, 27, and Master Sgt. Ziv Dado, 36, was discovered during a recent operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials said in a statement. Ms. Zakaria was taken hostage by the Tribe of Nova music festival in Re’im, southern Israel, while Sergeant Dado was serving as a logistics supervisor with the army’s Golani Brigade at the time of the attack and was presumed dead, Israeli officials said. said.

The operation to locate their bodies resulted in at least two deaths, officials said, including Master Sgt. Eyal Meir Berkowitz and General Gal Meir Eisenkot, the son of War Cabinet Minister Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot. They died on December 7.

“Our national mission is to locate the missing and return all hostages home,” the Israeli military said. “We are working with security services and all intelligence and operational resources to bring all hostages home.”

Liat Bell Sommer, spokeswoman for the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum, a group formed by the families of abductees After the October 7 attack, it said in a statement that it shared the “deep sorrow” of the hostage families who had just been informed of the repatriation.

Ms. Zakaria “was filled with a zest for life,” Ms. Sommer said, noting her devotion to her family and her dogs. Sergeant Dado was married and the father of a five-month-old daughter, Ms. Sommer said, and he “loved helping others, especially the underserved.”

Of the approximately 240 hostages kidnapped on October 7, more than 100 have been released following a series of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Qatari, US and Egyptian officials. In November, negotiations led to the release of some hostages in exchange for Palestinian women and teenage prisoners held by Israel. They also led to a brief pause in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, which has led to a humanitarian crisis in the enclave, forcing some 1.9 million Palestinians to flee in two months.

Hostages who have been released have described the conditions of their captivity to relatives as horrific. Some were held in sweltering tunnels deep beneath the strip, squeezed into tight spaces or locked in isolation. All showed physical and psychological wounds. Hamas and Israel last week offered conflicting reports about the Israeli army’s hostage rescue efforts.

President Biden will meet with the families of some of the remaining American hostages on Wednesday. Families of hostages have urged the United States to push for more pauses in the fighting and continued negotiations.