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Body handed over by Hamas not one of the remaining captives: Report
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority is reporting that the remains handed over by Hamas do not belong to any of the 13 captives still held in Gaza.
It said that the identification process of the body returned last night to the Forensic Medicine Institute in Tel Aviv has been completed and suggests the remains belong to a body already brought for burial in Israel.
Latest issue with captives’ remains prompting ‘a lot of anger in Israel’
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority says the remains that were handed over to Israel overnight were not those of a new Israeli captive. In fact, there are suspicions that they belong to an Israeli captive whose [partial remains] have already been handed over and buried by the family.
The identity has not been revealed but we already know that the Israeli prime minister will hold emergency security consultations to respond to the developments as per this report.
Now let’s just remind ourselves of why this is so complicated and why we are talking about the gruesome details of remains of remains.
The recovery of these bodies is an extremely gruesome and gruelling task – there are tonnes and tonnes of piles of rubble in Gaza. The groups that were holding these Israeli captives may also have been killed in Israeli bombardment along with the captives, so information is difficult to ascertain.
The areas where these captives were held are often unrecognisable, so it takes a long time to recover them. So this development is one of many that were probably foreseen by the mediators, given the difficulties.
But it’s prompted a lot of anger in Israel, and we expect it will ignite discussions in the right-wing Israeli government about possible ways to exact retribution against Hamas.
