{"id":305033,"date":"2025-10-15T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305033\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:50:11","slug":"israel-says-one-of-the-bodies-handed-over-by-hamas-is-not-that-of-a-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305033\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says one of the bodies handed over by Hamas is not that of a hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) \u2014 The Israeli military said Wednesday that one of the bodies handed over by Hamas<\/a> the previous day as part of the ceasefire deal is not that of a hostage who was held in Gaza, adding to tensions over the fragile truce in the two-year war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four bodies were handed over by Hamas on Tuesday to ease pressure on the ceasefire, following an earlier four on Monday \u2014 hours after the last 20 living hostages were released. In all, Israel was awaiting the return of the bodies of 28 deceased hostages.<\/p>\n

The military said that \u201cfollowing 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.\u201d There was no immediate word on whose body it was.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu demanded earlier Wednesday that Hamas fulfill the requirements laid out in the ceasefire deal \u2014 introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> \u2014 about the return of the hostages\u2019 bodies. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not compromise on this and will not stop our efforts until we return the last deceased hostage, until the last one,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Returning all living and dead hostages <\/p>\n

The U.S.-proposed ceasefire plan<\/a> had called for all hostages \u2014 living and dead \u2014 to be handed over by a deadline that expired on Monday. But under the deal, if that didn\u2019t happen, Hamas was to share information about deceased hostages and try to hand over all as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Hamas has returned a wrong body to Israel. Earlier this year during a previous ceasefire, the group said it handed over the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two sons<\/a>. Israelis endured another moment of agony when testing showed that one of the bodies returned was identified as a Palestinian woman. <\/p>\n

Bibas\u2019 body was returned a day later and positively identified. <\/p>\n

Hazem Kassem, a spokesperson for Hamas, said on the Telegram messaging app on Wednesday that the group was working to return the bodies of the hostages as agreed in the ceasefire deal. He accused Israel of violating the deal with shootings Tuesday in eastern Gaza City and the territory\u2019s southern city of Rafah.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s defense minister, Israel Katz, said Wednesday the military is operating along the deployment lines laid out in the deal and warned that anyone approaching the deployment line will be targeted \u2014 as had happened on Tuesday with several militants.<\/p>\n

Two hostages whose bodies were released from Gaza were to buried on Wednesday. The family invited the public to gather along the road in the afternoon to accompany the body of one hostage from a forensics institute to a cemetery north of Tel Aviv. <\/p>\n

In the past, tens of thousands of Israelis have lined the streets to show respect to bodies of hostages on their way for burial, standing silently with Israeli flags.<\/p>\n

Desperately needed aid to Gaza<\/p>\n

The entrance of humanitarian aid to Gaza was paused for the past two days due to the prisoner and hostage exchange on Monday and a Jewish holiday Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The Egyptian Red Crescent said 400 trucks carrying food, fuel, and medical supplies were bound for the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, while Israel and Hamas argue over the slow return of the bodies of deceased hostages.<\/p>\n

The Israeli defense body overseeing humanitarian aid in Gaza, COGAT, notified humanitarian organizations on Tuesday that it would allow into Gaza only half of the 600 daily aid trucks called for under the deal.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether it was following through on the threat. COGAT declined to comment on the number of trucks expected to enter Gaza on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Israelis celebrated<\/a> the return of the last 20 living hostages<\/a> in Gaza and Palestinians rejoiced at Israel\u2019s release of some 2,000 prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire\u2019s first phase. <\/p>\n

Families of hostages and their supporters have expressed dismay these past days that so few of the dead hostages were being released. Hamas and the Red Cross have said that recovering the remains of dead hostages was a challenge because of Gaza\u2019s vast destruction, and Hamas told mediators of the truce that some are in areas controlled by Israeli troops.<\/p>\n

By Monday night, Hamas had released four bodies, and four more followed late on Tuesday. The first four were all identified as hostages and of the second group of four bodies<\/a>, three were identified \u2014 Uriel Baruch, Tamir Nimrodi and Eitan Levi.<\/p>\n

Baruch was kidnapped from the Nova music festival during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which triggered the war in Gaza<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nimrodi, who had been serving with the Israeli defense body overseeing humanitarian aid in Gaza, was taken by militants from the Erez border crossing. The Hostages Family Forum, a group representing many of the hostages\u2019 families, says Levi was kidnapped while driving a friend to Kibbutz Be\u2019eri during the Hamas attack.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Samy Magdy in Cairo contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) \u2014 The Israeli military said Wednesday that one of the bodies handed over by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,3881,69,154667,4526,57,4527,15127,99,3462,373,3463,8132,50,365,154666,96,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-305033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-ap-top-news","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eitan-levi","12":"tag-gaza-strip","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-hamas","15":"tag-hostage-situations","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-government","18":"tag-israel-hamas-war","19":"tag-mideast-wars","20":"tag-military-and-defense","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-religion","23":"tag-uriel-baruch","24":"tag-war-and-unrest","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115377565232501861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}