{"id":580915,"date":"2026-08-11T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/580915\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:12:10","slug":"shin-bet-chief-urges-israel-to-hold-1700-palestinian-bodies-as-bargaining-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/580915\/","title":{"rendered":"Shin Bet Chief Urges Israel to Hold 1,700 Palestinian Bodies as Bargaining Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Israel is holding the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians \u2013 around 1,700, according to two sources \u2013 for bargaining purposes, even though there are currently no Israelis being held hostage by Palestinian organizations. Shin Bet security service chief David Zini argues that Israel must keep these remains as bargaining chips in the event of future hostage-taking incidents, a position the Israel Defense Forces also supports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel is holding the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians \u2013 around 1,700, according to two sources \u2013 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19770,50,1155,1031,85,46,43,2200,73],"class_list":["post-580915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-david-zini","tag-gaza","tag-human-rights","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-palestinians","tag-shin-bet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}