Gaza, Israel
Digest more
The International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday handed over to Israel remains that it had received from Hamas terrorists, per the PMO.
Hamas said it had handed over the body of one of the last two deceased hostages in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, as Israel said it would allow Gaza's gateway to Egypt to open once all hostages were returned.
The apparent body of a hostage returned to Israel from Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip today has arrived at the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv, the Health Ministry says. The ministry says the remains will undergo identification and an investigation into the cause and circumstances of death.
Israel said Wednesday that it would reopen the Rafah border crossing in the coming days, allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza.
4don MSN
'No day after until Ran is home,' father of final Israeli hostage held in Gaza says at TLV rally
Itzik Gvili addressed the crowd gathered at Hostage Square for the final weekly protest on Saturday night, denouncing Hamas as "playing and mocking us."
The Times of Israel on MSN
Weekly hostage support rallies in Tel Aviv to end, family of slain captive says
Ran Gvili's family announces Friday afternoon 'Kabbalat Shabbat' events instead, as it 'adjusts to new reality' of only 2 captives still in Gaza, and thinning resources
A photo of slain hostage Ran Gvili, whose remains are being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is displayed during a rally calling for the return of
Hamas had accused Abu Shabab, whose group operates in Gaza's southern Rafah area, of collaborating with Israel, which he denied.
The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza's Health Ministry said Saturday, while a hospital said Israeli fire killed two Palestinian children in the territory's south.
Israeli and Thai officials say remains that militants in Gaza handed to Israel were those of a Thai agricultural worker killed during the attack that started the war two years ago