{"id":83953,"date":"2025-10-19T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/83953\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:45:07","slug":"hamas-returns-bodies-of-two-more-captives-says-israel-violating-ceasefire-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/83953\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas returns bodies of two more captives, says Israel violating ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamas has turned over the remains of two more deceased Israeli captives<\/a> from Gaza, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced, as the Palestinian group accused Israel of continuing to commit ceasefire violations and repudiating the commitments made to peace mediators.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael has received, via the Red Cross, the bodies of two hostages\u201d, which were returned to Israeli security forces in Gaza, Netanyahu\u2019s office said in a post on the X social media platform early on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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The prime minister\u2019s office said the families of the Israeli captives have been updated on the return of the remains, although no names have been released so far.<\/p>\n

The office said the two bodies have been transferred to the Israeli National Centre of Forensic Medicine, and \u201cupon completion of the identification process, formal notification will be delivered to the families\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe effort to return our hostages is ongoing and will not cease until the last hostage is returned,\u201d the prime minister\u2019s office added.<\/p>\n

With the handover late on Saturday, Hamas has now returned the remains of 12 of the 28 captives who died in Gaza, a key demand by Israel in the week-old ceasefire deal to end the two-year war.<\/p>\n

According to the deal, Hamas was to return all of the Israeli captives \u2013 both the living and the dead \u2013 within 72 hours of its signing. In exchange, Israel was to release 360 bodies of deceased Palestinians and some 2,000 prisoners.<\/p>\n

Hamas has said the widespread devastation in the Palestinian territory and the Israeli military\u2019s continuing control of certain parts of Gaza have slowed the recovery of the bodies of deceased captives.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said Palestinian authorities do not have adequate equipment to help with the search for captives\u2019 bodies beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult, with recovery teams on the ground facing extraordinary challenges. [They have] no bulldozers, no trucks, no cranes and no heavy equipment\u2026 to speed up the process and help with the recovery and return of bodies,\u201d Mahmoud said.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Hamdah Salhut, who is reporting from Amman, Jordan, because Al Jazeera is banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank, said that Netanyahu\u2019s government has known \u201cfor some time\u201d that the recovery of bodies<\/a> of captives would be \u201can incredibly difficult and daunting task\u201d.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu, however, has accused Hamas of not doing enough to return the remains of the 28 and that all of the bodies need to be returned immediately, Salhut said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil that happens, that\u2019s when Israel is going to honour more of the commitments of the ceasefire, like letting in more humanitarian assistance, talking about opening the Rafah border crossing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"HospitalHospital workers transport the remains of a Palestinian prisoner released by Israel under a Gaza ceasefire and captives exchange deal to the morgue of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Saturday [Omar al-Qattaa\/AFP]<\/p>\n

For days, Hamas and Israel have traded blame over violations of the US-mediated ceasefire.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Hamas accused the Netanyahu government of \u201cfabricating flimsy pretexts\u201d to not follow through on its commitments to the peace deal, as well as denouncing Israel\u2019s refusal to open the Rafah crossing with Egypt as \u201ca blatant violation\u201d of the agreement.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Israeli forces killed 11 members<\/a> of a single family, including seven children, in an attack east of Gaza City.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Embassy in Egypt announced earlier on Saturday that the Rafah crossing<\/a>, the main gateway for people in Gaza to leave and enter the enclave, would reopen on Monday.<\/p>\n

But Netanyahu said the border crossing would remain closed until Hamas hands over the bodies of all the deceased Israeli captives.<\/p>\n

The delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza also remains slow despite the ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said it had enough humanitarian food supplies to feed Gaza for three months, but trucks carrying the life-saving cargo are unable to enter Gaza and are stuck in warehouses in Jordan and Egypt.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must be allowed to get all this aid into Gaza without delay,\u201d UNRWA said, adding that it also has equipment to provide shelter to as many as 1.3 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamas has turned over the remains of two more deceased Israeli captives from Gaza, the office of Israeli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,85,46,44,47,43,48],"class_list":["post-83953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83953","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=83953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}