US EditionPalestinian militants hand over body of another Gaza hostage
The return of hostage remains is part of a US-brokered ceasefire that has seen 22 bodies returned and aims to reduce hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants.
- On Friday, Palestinian militants handed a coffin carrying a deceased hostage found in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, to Israel's military and prime minister's office via the Red Cross at 2100 local time.
- The US-brokered ceasefire that began on Oct. 10 stipulated Hamas return remains of 28 deceased hostages in exchange for remains of 360 militants and included prisoner releases.
- Records show Hamas-led militants seized 251 hostages and killed about 1,200 people in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, and so far 22 of the 28 deceased hostages have been returned.
- Families of returned hostages held funerals and tributes, including eulogies for Israeli-American soldier Omer Neutra, 21, after his remains were returned, leaving five other bodies still in Gaza if confirmed.
- Identification remains difficult because DNA labs are not allowed in Gaza, even as the ceasefire's partial calm allows returns; Israel accuses Hamas of delaying returns while Hamas says many bodies lie under Gaza rubble.
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Palestinian terror group Islamic Jihad returns body of dead hostage to Israel
Islamic Jihad is an armed group that is allied with Hamas and which also took hostages during the October 7, 2023 attack that precipitated the Gaza war. It said the hostage's body was located in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis
Israel received, through the International Committee of the Red Cross, one of the last six remains held hostage by Hamas or its allies in Gaza.
Another set of hostage remains has been handed over in Gaza, Israel says
The Red Cross transferred the remains of a hostage to Israeli troops in Gaza on Friday, the military said, hours after hundreds of mourners flocked to the funeral of a soldier whose body was turned over earlier in the week by Palestinian militants.
Military-Islamist Hamas has handed over another body to the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip.
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