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Source: https://www.jpost.com/history/article-902074
Jerusalem Memorial Honors Six-Day War Veterans Killed on Oct. 7
(Jerusalem Post) Miriam Sela-Eitam - The Ammunition Hill Heritage Site in the heart of Jerusalem, memorializing 36 paratroopers of the 66th Battalion who fell in the Battle for Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War, has evolved into a site for the battalion to remember its fallen throughout Israel's wars. The newest addition marks five liberators of Jerusalem who were taken hostage and murdered by Hamas during or after the Oct. 7 massacre. Amitai Yaakov Ben Zvi (80), Oded Lifshitz (83), Yoram Metzger (80), Avraham Munder (79), and Chaim Peri (79) all retired to the Gaza border community of Kibbutz Nir Oz, where Hamas massacred 47 residents and took another 76 hostage. Hamas murdered Ben Zvi in his home. Lifshitz was murdered in 2024 while held captive by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. His remains were returned over a year later. Metzger, Munder, and Peri were all killed in captivity and their remains were returned by the IDF on Aug. 20, 2024.