Hamas armed wing says will hand over two more Israeli captives’ bodies
The Qassam Brigades say the handover will happen at 10pm local time (19:00 GMT). So far, Hamas has returned the remains of seven of 28 known deceased captives – along with an eighth corpse that Israel says is not of a former hostage.
Hamas says it handed over ‘all living’ Israeli captives, ‘bodies it can access’
Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, released a short statement saying it has met its commitments under Trump’s Gaza plan as it pertains to Israeli captives in Gaza.
“The resistance has adhered to what was agreed upon and has handed over all the living prisoners it has and the bodies it can access,” it said. “As for the remaining bodies, they require significant efforts and special equipment to search for and retrieve them, and we are making great efforts to close this file.”
Israel says Red Cross to receive coffins of captives in Gaza
The Israeli military and the Shin Bet, the country’s internal security agency, have released a joint statement saying the Red Cross is on its way to a meeting point in northern Gaza where it will receive “several coffins of fallen hostages”.
Meanwhile Israel dumps bodies back in Gaza in bags loaded on a truck, still blindfolded and hands zip tied.
Captives’ bodies now in Israel being identified: Army
The captives’ bodies are being brought to Israel’s national forensic centre to undergo identification procedures, the Israeli military and the Shin Bet say. The army urged people to “await the official identification” of the remains.
PM Netanyahu says Israel won’t compromise over captives’ bodies
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Hamas fulfil the requirements laid out in the ceasefire deal about the return of bodies of captives who died in Gaza.
“We will not compromise on this and will not stop our efforts until we return the last deceased hostage, until the last one,” Netanyahu said.
The ceasefire plan introduced by US President Donald Trump called for all captives – living and dead – to be handed over by a deadline that expired Monday. But under the deal, if that didn’t happen, Hamas was to share information about deceased abductees and try to hand them over as soon as possible.
Hamas and the Red Cross have said recovering the remains of dead captives was a challenge because of Gaza’s vast destruction, and Hamas has told mediators some are in areas controlled by Israeli troops.
Israel knew finding bodies in war-torn Gaza would be ‘incredibly difficult’
Hamas says it is doing its best to uphold its end of the ceasefire deal and honouring the agreement, but it’s certainly going to need assistance in trying to locate the remaining bodies of captives because Gaza is completely in ruins.
These are areas that have been largely turned into rubble. So Hamas says they are doing what they can, locating bodies to the best of their abilities, but they will need “specialised equipment”, they will need certain tools and assistance, to try and locate the rest of the remains.
Israeli officials knew this was certainly going to be the case.
Yes, that's why they agreed to the 'peace' plan as they knew it would never get past phase 1. The lost dead bodies, the remaining 'terror tunnels' for demilitarization, Hamas not going to give up their small arms they need for policing Gaza...
It's all a sick play. The only question is how much is Trump in on it, or is he that delusional.
