US citizen thought to have been taken hostage in Hamas attack reported dead

Itay Chen, 19, was serving in the IDF when militants attacked his base and killed him, and then took his body to Gaza

Joe Biden has said he was devastated to learn that a dual US-Israeli citizen thought kidnapped and held in Gaza had actually been killed during Hamas’s 7 October attack.

Itay Chen, 19, was about one year into his military service in the Israeli Armoured Corps when his base near the Gaza border was attacked.