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\nRed Cross teams deliver the bodies of 30 Palestinians, who were detained by Israeli forces from different parts of Gaza during the war<\/p>\n
The Israeli military attacked Gaza for a third day last night, killing two people, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency said, in another test of a fragile ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n
One Palestinian was killed by Israeli shelling and another was shot dead by Israeli forces, WAFA said.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n
A third Palestinian died of wounds sustained from previous Israeli shelling, the news agency reported.<\/p>\n
The US-brokered ceasefire, which left thorny issues like the disarmament of Hamas and a timeline for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza unresolved, has been tested by periodic outbreaks of violence since it came into place three weeks ago.<\/p>\n
It comes as Israel returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a US-brokered ceasefire plan, the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis has said.<\/p>\n
\nRed Cross teams deliver the bodies of 30 Palestinians, who were detained by Israeli forces from different parts of Gaza during the war<\/p>\n
The hospital said “the bodies of 30 Palestinian prisoners were received from the Israeli side as part of the exchange deal”.<\/p>\n
Under the truce, Israel is to return the remains of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli hostage returned by Hamas.<\/p>\n
Today’s transfer brings the number returned to Gaza to 225.<\/p>\n
The bodies were brought to Nasser by the Red Cross, after being handed over by Israel, as has been the case in previous exchanges, the hospital said.<\/p>\n
Under the 10 October ceasefire plan, Hamas has already returned 20 surviving hostages taken two years ago during its 7 October 2023 assault on Israel.<\/p>\n
It has also begun sending back the bodies of 28 deceased hostages known to be missing, but the process has been slow and Israeli anger is mounting.<\/p>\n
Hamas has sent back 15 bodies identified as Israeli hostages and those of two foreign workers – one Thai and one Nepalese – also taken in the 7 October attack.<\/p>\n
It has also returned the partial remains of a deceased Israeli hostage who had already been recovered, as well as an unidentified body that had not been listed among the 28 missing.<\/p>\n
There are 10 bodies of 7 October hostages thought to remain in Gaza, plus one more missing since 2014.<\/p>\n
All are Israeli apart from one Tanzanian and a Thai.<\/p>\n
The Israeli government has accused Hamas of breaking the truce agreement, and families of the hostages have demanded tougher action to force the Palestinian group to comply.<\/p>\n
Hamas insists it is committed to the ceasefire plan but is struggling to find the remaining dead because two years of Israeli bombardments have erased Gazan landmarks.<\/p>\n
Egyptian recovery teams equipped with earth-moving equipment have joined the effort to search for the bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israeli military attacked Gaza for a third day last night, killing two people, the Palestinian Authority’s official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-155348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115469042808615714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}