US EditionIsrael Pushes for Return of All Hostage Bodies, Hamas Says Can't Find Them: ‘Need Special Machinery’
Hamas has returned the remains of nine captives amid ongoing disputes over aid and equipment access needed to recover 18 bodies still trapped under Gaza rubble, officials said.
- On Friday, the armed wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, handed over the remains of an additional captive to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which will send the body to Israel's Ministry of Health's National Center for Forensic Medicine for identification.
- Officials for Hamas contend recovery is limited due to rubble and destroyed tunnels in Gaza, saying Israel has blocked heavy machinery and Turkiye's 81 experts from entering.
- So far in the past days Hamas handed over remains of nine captives and a 10th body that Israel disputes, while Gaza's civil defence says more than 10,000 slain Palestinians remain trapped and only 280 have been retrieved.
- Political and security warnings intensified when Israel's government and military faced pressure to uphold the ceasefire by securing all deceased hostages totalling 28, while US President Donald Trump warned of renewed war.
- Despite the ceasefire agreed last week, Israel has not allowed large-scale aid entry and remains active in about half of the Gaza Strip, while Hamas urged mediators to open Rafah and support reconstruction amid limited heavy equipment destroyed during the war.
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News Wrap: Israel pressures Hamas to return hostage bodies
In our news wrap Saturday, Hamas blamed its slow progress in returning hostage remains on lack of machinery to dig through rubble in Gaza, Trump says two survivors detained after a U.S. strike on a vessel in the Caribbean will be returned to their home countries, former Rep. Santos is out of prison after Trump commuted his sentence, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are headed back to the World Series.
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The Islamist Hamas movement says it will take time to return the remaining bodies to Israel. Some of the bodies are in tunnels destroyed by the Israeli army, others are under the rubble of bombed buildings, Hamas said in a statement released Friday night.
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