The Israel Police held a brief memorial ceremony at the IDF's Nahal Oz base near the Gaza border for slain policeman Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, whose remains were recovered from Gaza today, attended by his father Itzik Gvili and Police Commissioner Daniel Levy, according to an X post by Mannie Fabian in the 29-minute reporting window ending 5:16 p.m. UTC on January 26. The casket was transferred to the Israel Police and carried by Gvili's friends from the Special Forces unit, as stated in an official Israel Police X post shared during the period from 4:46 p.m. to 5:16 p.m. UTC. Gvili's body will soon be escorted by police to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv, with a funeral scheduled for Wednesday, per Fabian's report. This ceremony follows the IDF's completion earlier today of Operation āCourageous Heartā to recover Gvili's remains, the last deceased hostage held in Gaza since October 7, 2023, as announced in an official IDF statement.
