7 d. ago Israel receives another hostage’s body as Palestinian deaths reported in Gaza

Israel has continued to intermittently strike the Gaza Strip

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7 d. ago Israel identifies remains of hostage handed over by Hamas in Gaza

The 19-year-old was serving as a soldier when Hamas carried out the surprise rampage in October 2023 through southern Israeli towns and military bases

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8 d. ago Israel says the remains of a hostage have been turned over in Gaza

Israel's military says the remains of a hostage in Gaza have been turned over and are now in Israel

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9 d. ago Israel and Hamas hand over bodies as part of Gaza ceasefire deal

Hamas hands remains of three soldiers to Israel and bodies of 45 Palestinians are returned to Gaza amid fragile ceasefireIsrael has announced that the remains of three soldiers killed by Hamas during its raid into Israel on 7 October 2023 have been handed over by the militant group.The transfer is the latest since the precarious ceasefire in Gaza came into effect just over three weeks ago. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Israel mourns 3 troops whose bodies were returned by Hamas as ex

Israel says the latest remains of three hostages returned from Gaza are soldiers who were killed in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel that started the war

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1 week ago Israel receives remains of two more hostages from Hamas days after IDF launched fresh wave of strikes on Gaza

Israel said its security forces in the Gaza Strip had received from the Red Cross the remains of two hostages returned by Hamas on Thursday as part of a ceasefire deal.

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1 week ago Palestinian militants hand over 2 coffins with remains of hostages to Red Cross in Gaza

Israel’s military says Palestinian militants have handed over two coffins containing the remains of dead hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza

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3 w. ago What to know about the 13 hostages whose remains are still inside Gaza

Palestinian militants have so far released 15 bodies of hostages that were held in Gaza for the past two years as part of the ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Hamas war

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3 w. ago Rafah border crossing to stay closed ‘until further notice’, says Israel

Officials say reopening of gateway between Gaza and Egypt would depend on Hamas returning remains of dead hostagesThe Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will stay closed “until further notice”, Israel has said, after the Palestinian embassy in Cairo said the territory’s sole gateway to the outside world would reopen on Monday.The statement by Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said reopening Rafah would depend on how Hamas fulfils its ceasefire role of returning the remains of all 28 dead hostages. Israel’s foreign ministry earlier said the crossing would probably reopen on Sunday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Israel identifies remains of 10th Gaza hostage as body search continues

Eliyahu Margalit, 76, has been identified as the 10th dead hostage returned to Israel by Hamas, as part of a fragile ceasefire deal

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3 w. ago Gaza peace at risk as 'Hamas blatantly violates' hostage remains agreement and Netanyahu warns 'the fight is not over'

Hamas were supposed to release all living and dead hostages on Monday under the Donald Trump brokered deal, but the bodies of 19 dead hostages remain in Gaza.

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4 w. ago Israel urged to open more Gaza border crossings to allow surge of aid

Aid agencies and UN officials call for more entry points to allow ‘thousands of trucks’ to enter devastated territoryGaza ceasefire – live updatesAid agencies and the United Nations are calling for Israel to open more crossings into Gaza to allow “thousands of trucks” to enter the devastated territory every day.Preparations are being made to allow convoys through the southern Rafah crossing with Egypt on Thursday, the first such access through the critical entry point since May last year. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago These are the hostage bodies released by Hamas – and those yet to be returned

The bodies of 21 hostages remain in Gaza as families accuse Hamas of breaching a ceasefire agreement

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4 w. ago Who are the dead hostages Hamas are yet to release – as ceasefire with Israel hangs in the balance?

The bodies of 21 hostages remain in Gaza as families accuse Hamas of breaching a ceasefire agreement

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4 w. ago Gaza ceasefire live: Israel says one of the bodies handed over by Hamas is not a hostage amid reports vital aid crossing to reopen

Israel previously said the flow of aid would be cut by half and Rafah crossing would not open as planned due to delay in returning bodies of hostagesIsrael limits aid into Gaza in dispute over hostages’ remainsThe Israeli military said on Wednesday that one of the bodies handed over by Hamas the previous day as part of the ceasefire deal is not that of one of the hostages who was held in Gaza. Four bodies were handed over by Hamas on Tuesday to ease pressure on the fragile ceasefire, after the first four on Monday – when the last 20 living hostages were released. The military said that “following the completion of examinations at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, the fourth body handed over to Israel by Hamas does not match any of the hostages”.In the north of the territory, as Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza City, the Hamas government’s black-masked armed police resumed street patrols, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).Our message is clear: There will be no place for ...

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4 w. ago Red Cross teams search Gaza ruins for the remains of Israeli hostages after Hamas were warned they had until tonight to return the remaining bodies

The International Committee of the charity said it may take considerable time to hand over the remains of hostages and detainees killed in the Israel-Hamas war

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last month Israelis and Palestinians celebrate as truce brings hope of ‘era of peace’

UN warns Gaza still needs ‘lifesaving aid’ as world leaders gather in Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss 20-point proposalThere was a rare moment of joy among Israelis and Palestinians on Monday as Hamas released the remaining 20 living hostages in Gaza as part of a swap deal for nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees, on a day world leaders met in Egypt to try to ensure the current limited truce is extended into a durable peace.Addressing the summit, the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, called for the ceasefire in Gaza to usher in a new era in the Middle East. “Let the Gaza war be the last of wars in the region,” the president said, amid widespread anxiety over how long the current truce will last. Continue reading...

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last month Trump signs historic Gaza peace deal in Egypt: 'It took 3,000 years to get to this point'

Donald Trump with a stroke of a pen formally solidified the Israel-Hamas peace plan following the release of the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza.

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last month Trump attends Egypt summit after hailing ‘historic dawn of a new Middle East’

President addressed Knesset after release of all remaining living Israeli hostages from Gaza

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last month Trump declares next stage of Gaza peace talks underway as Israel lashes out over hostage remains: Live updates

LIVE: Hamas has released the first seven Israeli hostages as part of a monumental ceasefire agreement with Israel.

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