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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the next stages of the fragile Gaza<\/a> ceasefire, while Israel returned the remains of another 15 Palestinians.<\/p>\n

The remains of four hostages<\/a> are still in Gaza after Palestinian militants released the remains of another on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The first stage of the ceasefire agreement<\/a> that took effect on Oct. 10 is nearing its end. The next stage calls for the implementation of a governing body for Gaza and the deployment of an international stabilization force. It is not clear where either stands.<\/p>\n

Israel ended the previous ceasefire agreement earlier this year after a period of exchanging hostages for Palestinian prisoners. At the time, mediators were unable to bring Hamas and Israel to the table to negotiate a troop withdrawal and a plan for the future governance of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Also on Monday, the Israeli military released the results of a review into the failures surrounding the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that started the war, saying it had found shortcomings in a series of previous investigations.<\/p>\n

The latest exchange of bodies<\/p>\n

For each Israeli hostage returned, Israel has been releasing the remains of 15 Palestinians \u2014 an exchange central to the ceasefire\u2019s first phase. The Gaza Health Ministry said the total number of remains received is now 315. <\/p>\n

Only 91 have been identified, the ministry said. Forensic work is complicated by a lack of DNA testing kits in Gaza. The ministry posts photos of the remains online in the hope that families will recognize them.<\/p>\n

One mother waited at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, wondering whether her missing 15-year-old son was among the new remains returned. He disappeared while on the way to school on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cRayyan has been missing for two years. I don\u2019t know his fate, whether he\u2019s still alive or dead,\u201d said Shaima Abu Ouda, adding that he vanished near the wall separating Gaza and southern Israel. Her husband and eldest son were killed during the war.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Israel confirmed it had received the remains of Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in the Gaza Strip<\/a> in 2014, closing a painful chapter for the country. The 23-year-old was killed two hours after a ceasefire took effect in that year\u2019s war between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n

His remains had been the only ones left in Gaza predating the current war between Israel and Hamas<\/a>. A funeral was scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, and 251 people were kidnapped.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry said the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza has risen to 69,176. Its count does not distinguish between militants and civilians, but the ministry says more than half of those killed were women and children.<\/p>\n

The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals, maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by independent experts.<\/p>\n

US officials try to push ceasefire forward<\/p>\n

Netanyahu and Kushner discussed the progress and future of the ceasefire, said Israeli government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian.<\/p>\n

The deal has focused on the first phase of halting the fighting, releasing all hostages and boosting humanitarian aid to Gaza. Details of the second phase haven\u2019t been worked out.<\/p>\n

The United Nations\u2019 humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, said on Monday that more than 1 million Palestinians in Gaza have been fed since the ceasefire began, and that winter clothes and blankets are being distributed. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut many obstacles remain,\u201d Fletcher said, citing red tape and too few entry points to bring additional aid into Gaza. \u201cWe can do much more to save many more lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, Kushner also was helping to lead negotiations to secure safe passage for 150-200 trapped Hamas militants in exchange for surrendering their weapons after the release of Goldin\u2019s remains, according to someone close to the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the talks.<\/p>\n

Bedrosian did not say where those negotiations were headed.<\/p>\n

Hamas has made no comment on a possible exchange for its fighters stuck in the so-called yellow zone of territory controlled by Israeli forces, though it has acknowledged that clashes were taking place there.<\/p>\n

Israeli military reviews its failures on Oct. 7, 2023<\/p>\n

The conclusions released Monday by the Israeli military appeared to largely echo those of past investigations, citing both intelligence and operational failures.<\/p>\n

It said that intelligence officials had failed to recognize Hamas\u2019 growing capabilities or preparations for the attack, even in the early hours of Oct. 7. It also criticized the performance of ground troops, the navy and the air force.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the night of Oct. 7, direct intelligence had accumulated which, had it been professionally analyzed, could and should have led to an alert and a significant operational response,\u201d the military said.<\/p>\n

The report focused only on the army\u2019s performance. Netanyahu has rejected calls for an official commission of inquiry that would look into governmental decision making, saying such an investigation can only take place when the war ends. Critics accuse him of stonewalling to prevent what is likely to be an unflattering report.<\/p>\n

West Bank village faces demolition<\/p>\n

Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Umm al-Khair<\/a>, which was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary \u201cNo Other Land,\u201d were bracing Monday for the arrival of Israeli military bulldozers.<\/p>\n

The documentary chronicles villagers\u2019 attempts to survive state-backed demolitions and rampant violence from Israeli settlers.<\/p>\n

Residents say Israel has ordered the demolition of 14 structures, including the community center, greenhouse and family homes. A press release from the community said the demolitions could begin Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Israel says the structures were built illegally. Residents, determined to stay on their land, say it is impossible to secure permits to build in the West Bank, leaving them little choice but to rebuild their homes following demolitions.<\/p>\n

The village was founded in the 1950s by traditionally nomadic people, known as Bedouin, who settled there after being uprooted from the Negev desert during the 1948 war surrounding Israel\u2019s creation. Two decades later, Umm al-Khair fell under Israeli security control when Israel captured the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Settler attacks, residents say, began in the 1980s, after Israel built the settlement of Carmel close to Umm al-Khair.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP reporters Josef Federman in Jerusalem, and Edith Lederer and Farnoush Amiri at the United Nations, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Find more of AP\u2019s Israel-Hamas coverage at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met on Monday with Israeli…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":370425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,372,69,4526,57,4527,15127,3464,99,3462,373,17966,3463,50,59769,365,96,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-370424","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-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-gaza-strip","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-hamas","14":"tag-hostage-situations","15":"tag-international-agreements","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-government","18":"tag-israel-hamas-war","19":"tag-jared-kushner","20":"tag-mideast-wars","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-prisoner-exchange","23":"tag-religion","24":"tag-war-and-unrest","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115528410891810236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370424","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=370424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}