Hamas has handed over the remains of more hostages found in the devastated Gaza Strip, as the Palestinian group called on mediators and the international community to pressure Israel to close the border guards again. allow help to.
The armed wing of Hamas, QASSAM BRASGADES, said in a statement on Friday that its fighters handed over the remains at 11pm local time (20:00 GMT), without specifying where the body was found.
According to the group, the remains were removed earlier in the day and did not belong to the “prisoner of prisoners”, suggesting that they are one of the captives of several nations and taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed a short time later that Israel had found the hostage’s coffin after he was brought to the Red Cross by Hamas in Gaza.
The box will be transferred to Israel’s Ministry of National Health, where a systematic identification process will be carried out before the family is notified.
The Israeli military called for “civil action with sensitivity and waiting for official identification”. It also added that “Hamas is required to support the agreement and take the necessary steps to bring back all the dead Palestinians”.
Hamas said it was committed to the terms of the United States-Mediated Rescue Deal, including the handover of the bodies of the hostages still buried under the ruins of Gaza. It also said that it has recovered all the bodies it could recover, but it needs help to find the remaining hostages who were trapped under the rubble following the Israeli strikes.
“There are still 18 bodies trapped inside Gaza,” said Al Jazeera’s Hamda Salhut, reporting from Amman on Friday. “Hamas says they are waiting for the help they need on the ground with the help of heavy equipment and teams on the ground.”
Israel ‘Doesn’t Get Together’
The former Israeli ambassador Alon Liel said that the return of the bodies of the dead tailors is very much in the air in the country, creating pressure on the government.
He said many Israelis believed that Hamas was cheating on the agreement to attack other agreements by not returning all the bodies of the dead tailors. “There’s a lot of anger,” Liel said.
In an initial statement on Friday, Hamas said some of the hostages were ‘in buildings or buildings that were destroyed by Israel, and that heavy equipment was destroyed with debris. He blamed Israel for the delay, saying that it did not allow the new bulldozers to strip.
Most of the heavy equipment in Gaza was destroyed during the war, leaving only a limited amount as the Palestinians tried to clear the vast amounts of rubble that had been swept across the devastated territory.
Al Jazeera, however, with the support of Amman, said that Israel “does not cooperate with countries that lend aid and may want those who are left”.
“Turkey, for example, is ready to send 81 experts for the recovery of bodies, and Israel does not allow them to intervene.
On Friday, two bulldozers plowed holes in the ground as Hamas searched for captured remains in Hamadi City, a complex of apartment towers in Khan Younis in Khan Younis in Khan Younis. Israeli forces repeatedly bombed the towers during the war, planted more, and the army launched an offensive in the week of March 2024.
US President Donald Trump has warned Hamas that he will see Israel continue the war related to this agreement and return the remains of nine hostages, as well as 1 Israeli hostage.
The return of the 10 dead hostages on Friday comes as Gaza’s security forces say more than 10,000 Palestinians have been trapped under rubble and rubble across the border. Only 280 have been found so far.
Hamas has appealed to mediators to ensure the further flow of essential aid to Gaza, rejecting the opening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and starting reconstruction. Despite the end of the ceasefire agreed last week, Israel will still allow aid to enter the scale and is still active in about half of the Gaza Strip, as attacks continue elsewhere.
