Dror Or, a devoted father and husband from Kibbutz Be’eri who was murdered on October 7, 2023, was buried on Sunday morning, more than two years after his body was abducted to the Gaza Strip.

Or, whose body was released to Israel last Tuesday under the terms of the ceasefire with Hamas, was buried alongside his wife, Yonat Or, who was also murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 onslaught that sparked the war in Gaza.

Elad, Or’s older brother, said in his eulogy that he would never be able to comprehend the enormity of the tragedy.

“I will never in my life really understand how this could have happened to you and to Yonat — how you were attacked like that in your beautiful home, with such terrible evil,” he said. “And how you somehow managed to tell Alma and Noam to run, and then they caught you. I never want to understand it.”

Or was considered a living hostage until May 2, 2024, when IDF intelligence showed that he was killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza.

His two younger children, Noam, 17, and Alma, 13, were taken hostage on that day and released during the first ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, on November 23, 2023.

Noam and Alma’s older brother, Yahli, was volunteering in a year of national service in the north, and wasn’t home on October 7.

Their cousin Liam Or, who lived in nearby Kibbutz Re’im, was visiting with the family that weekend and was taken captive as well. He was released on November 29, 2023.

After the release of Or’s body last Wednesday, Hamas is still holding the remains of two hostages:

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