US EditionIsrael Receives Remains Said to Be of Deceased Hostage Held in Gaza
Hamas found remains of an Israeli hostage beyond the ceasefire's yellow line and is coordinating with the Red Cross to transfer them, amid ongoing efforts to locate eight missing soldiers.
- On Tuesday, Hamas announced it located an Israeli hostage's remains beyond the `yellow line` in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City and will transfer them to Israel.
- Since the truce, Gaza health ministry reports Israel returned 270 bodies, with only 78 identified, while the ceasefire deal required Israeli forces to withdraw behind the demarcated `yellow line`.
- Profiles of individual missing or killed people underscore the human toll: Itay Chen, 20, of Netanya, was missing 158 days before confirmed kidnapped, while Dror Or's family learned 208 days later he was killed.
- Families pressed officials after a Monday meeting with government hostage czar Gal Hirsch, issuing a joint appeal for all eight missing hostages and insisting Gaza not be rebuilt first.
- Israeli warplanes reportedly carried out fresh airstrikes in southern Gaza, while settler violence and eight arrests occurred in Nablus, Beit Furik and Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
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If the body is clearly identified as that of an Israeli hostage, it would be the 21st of the 28 remains that the Islamist movement must make as part of the agreement with the Hebrew state.
Hostage remains handed over Tuesday are those of dual US-Israeli citizen Itay Chen, Israel says
Israel on Tuesday said it had received the remains of Itay Chen, the last US-Israeli hostage held in Gaza, as part of the US-brokered ceasefire deal that came into effect last month.
Hamas will hand over the body of a dead Israeli soldier held hostage from Gaza to Israel on Tuesday evening, Reuters news agency reports. Hamas says the body was found in Shejaja, which ...
Hamas announced on Tuesday that it had found the body of an Israeli soldier in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, adding that arrangements were being made to hand it over to the Israeli side.
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