JERUSALEM -- Hundreds of mourners attended the military funeral of an Israeli-American soldier whose body was recently returned to the country as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

Capt. Omer Neutra was 21 when Hamas militants killed him and abducted his body to Gaza in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that began the war. His remains was released to Israel on Sunday night along with those of two other soldiers killed during the attack.

"Since that day, the old world stopped, turned upside down. We became broken, clinging to your memory, your smile, your voice," said his father, Ronen Neutra. "Today we finally have a place to be with you, a place to talk to you, a place to love you, even when you're no longer here. "

Neutra was also eulogized by Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Comma

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