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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A fire and explosion at a convenience store in the northwestern Mexican city of Hermosillo killed at least 23 people, including several children, and injured 12 others, local officials said.
The death toll from a massive landslide in western Kenya’s Elgeyo Marakwet County has climbed to 26 after rescuers recovered four more bodies on Sunday, before operations were halted due to sudden flash floods.
A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Mazar-e Sharif early Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring around 150, according to Afghan provincial authorities.
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