The Israeli army says Hamas has transferred the remains of three Israeli hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
The ICRC received the coffins inside the Gaza Strip before transferring them to Israeli forces for identification. If verified, the three would be among the 28 deceased hostages Hamas agreed to return under the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal, which began last month.
Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said the bodies were recovered earlier on Sunday ‘along the route of one of the tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip’. The group claimed it continues to search for others believed to be buried under debris from Israeli air strikes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said all hostage families had been informed, adding that the effort to bring every hostage home ‘will not cease until the last hostage is returned’.
So far, Hamas has handed over the remains of 15 Israeli and two foreign hostages — one Thai and one Nepalese — in exchange for the return of 225 Palestinian bodies.
Under the same ceasefire deal, Hamas released all 20 living Israeli hostages on 13 October in exchange for 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.
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Leaders of countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have agreed to hold coordinated population censuses around 2030. They took the decision at the CIS Council of Heads of State meeting in Awaza, Turkmenistan on Friday, media reported.
Russia struck Ukraine overnight in one of the biggest attacks of the conflict, killing at least 19 people, Kyiv's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Around 70 missiles were fired at Ukraine during the attack, as well as drones, the Ministry said.
The Saudi-led coalition says it has carried out a series of military operations against Houthi targets in Yemen after attacks on two Saudi airports left three people dead and dozens injured.
Azerbaijan and the five Central Asian states have signed two key documents at the 8th Consultative Meeting of Heads of State in Turkmenbashi, formalising a broader framework for regional cooperation in transport, trade, energy, digitalisation and security.
It started with classrooms. Too many students, not enough teachers, deteriorating buildings and growing anxiety over what comes after high school. But within weeks, a movement that began outside French lycées had spread across the country.
South African judge Navanethem “Navi” Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
The Pentagon says it will livestream the execution of former U.S. Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. It would be the first publicly livestreamed execution in U.S. history.
U.S. federal immigration agents shot and wounded a man in a car with a five-year-old boy inside in New York City’s Bronx neighbourhood on Thursday, city officials, police and witnesses say.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sharply criticised the United States following a series of Russian attacks that killed more than 70 people over two days, arguing that Washington is not doing enough to help Kyiv counter Moscow's continued assault.
Britain and Israel have reached a temporary compromise over the future of the British Consulate General in East Jerusalem, easing a diplomatic dispute that had threatened to further strain relations between the two countries.
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