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(CNN) — Israel has confirmed the body it received on Sunday afternoon is that of Lt. Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier killed more than a decade ago in Gaza, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Sunday.

Goldin was killed in the final days of the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas and his body has been held in Gaza since then.

“We brought Lt. Hadar Goldin - our son, a fighter - to be buried in Israel,” his father, Simcha Goldin, said in a televised statement outside their home in Kfar Saba on Sunday evening. “We do not abandon soldiers on the battlefield, because this is a value and we don’t compromise on values. Victory means bringing home the hostages and bringing home our soldiers to Israel.”

Following the burial ceremony in Israel on Sunday, his mot

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