US EditionHamas armed wing says it will hand over body of deceased hostage on Monday
- The Al-Qassam Brigades announced on Monday that one more hostage's remains will be handed to the Red Cross then transferred to the Israel Defense Forces for identification.
- The deal signed two weeks ago aimed to bring out 48 hostages, but only 35 have been released so far as Hamas said recovering all is difficult given Israel controls more than half of Gaza.
- Reports indicate access disputes: Israeli authorities permitted Egyptian heavy machinery, but defense officials refused Hamas representatives to cross the Yellow Line, Saudi network Al-Sharq reported that Hamas began recovering between seven and nine hostages.
- The proposed international force aims to help enforce the ceasefire, but Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar says Israel rejects Turkish armed forces joining under US President Donald Trump's plan.
- Aid shortfalls, measured against a 600-truck requirement, fuel tension as Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya accused Israel of delaying aid under the guise of hostage retrieval; he added `Gaza needs 6,000 daily, not 600`.
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The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement announced on Tuesday 28 October that it would hand over another hostage, according to a press release broadcast on its Telegram channel.
It is a new low point in Hamas' dealings with the Israeli dead: the organization did not hand over a missing hostage on Monday, but parts of the bodies of an Israeli buried two years ago.
Hamas, which was to release on 13 October the 28 bodies of the captives that he and his allies still hold, has returned until then only 15. The Islamist movement announced that another remains will be returned on Tuesday at 18:00 GMT.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has denied that the group has any information on the location of the bodies of the hostages that it has not yet handed over to Israel, before insisting that the Islamist formation will do so “as soon as possible”, among the criticisms of the Israeli authorities for the delays in the process. “The claims of the occupation that Hamas knows the location of the bodies of its prisoners is false, especially in t…
Apparently, only further remains of a body that had already been handed over were handed over.
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der Standard DEAccording to reports from Israel, only further remains of a dead hostage previously convicted were handed over on Monday
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