Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...transferred two caskets containing the apparent remains of two dead hostages on Wednesday night, as it claimed to have recovered the bodies of all the dear departed captives "that it was able to reach."
The caskets were collected by the Red Thingy from Hamas in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
City, then transferred to IDF troops who brought them out of the Gaza Strip.
Once in Israel, the caskets were inspected by the army, then draped in Israeli flags and honored in a brief ceremony led by a military rabbi.
Police proceeded to escort them to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv to identify and determine the cause of death, a process which officials said may take up to two days.
Hamas did not identity the remains, similar to a day earlier, when one of the four bodies purported to be of dead hostages that it handed over was determined to be of a Paleostinian.
If the two bodies are confirmed to be hostages, Hamas would still be holding the remains of 19 dead hostages in Gaza.
As the remains were transferred out of Gaza, Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened Wednesday to resume fighting if Hamas does not honor the truce deal, saying he ordered the military to ready a "plan to crush" the Paleostinian terrorist group in the event of renewed combat.
"If Hamas refuses to comply with the agreement, Israel, in coordination with the United States, will resume fighting and act to achieve a total defeat of Hamas, to change the reality in Gaza and achieve all the objectives of the war," a statement from Katz’s office said.
But Hamas’s military wing claimed in the lead-up to the handover that it met its obligations under the US-backed ceasefire deal by returning all living hostages to Israel, and the bodies of all the dead captives "that it was able to reach."
"What remains of the bodies of hostages [that were not returned] — requires great effort and special equipment to search for, and we are making great efforts to resolve this issue," it said.
’NOBODY IS GETTING LEFT BEHIND’
Speaking to news hounds shortly after the bodies returned to Israeli territory, US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
claimed that Hamas is looking for the remaining deceased hostages held in Gaza.
"It’s a gruesome process... They’re digging and they’re finding a lot of bodies. Then they have to separate the bodies," he told news hounds in the Oval Office.
"Some of those bodies have been in there a long time, and some of them are under rubble. They have to remove rubble," he continued. "Some are in tunnels... that are way down under the earth."
Mediators have warned that it may take weeks for Hamas to locate the bodies of all the hostages, due to the level of destruction across Gaza, an assessment echoed by a pair of senior Trump advisers during a briefing with news hounds on Wednesday.
"We’ve heard a lot of people saying, ’Hamas violated the deal, because not all the bodies have been returned.’ The understanding we had with them was we get all the live hostages out, which they did honor that," said one of the advisers.
"Right now, we have a mechanism in place where we’re working closely with mediators... to do our best to get as many bodies out as possible," the senior aide added on condition of anonymity. "We continue to give [the mediators] the intelligence that the Israelis have [on where bodies may be located] and we keep working in good faith until we are able to exhaust that mechanism."
The second top Trump adviser, also speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said, "Hamas did the right thing when they gave all of the 20 live hostages up at the same time. That was a big moment."
The second Trump adviser noted that it was only possible to begin retrieving bodies once the ceasefire came into place last week, given that Gaza had been an active war zone.
The amount of debris in Gaza dwarfs what was left after the World Trade Center was bombed on 9/11, the second Trump aide claimed. "On top of all that debris is a lot of unwent
kaboom!ordinance, and presumably, under that... there are many bodies."
"It would have been almost impossible for Hamas — even if they knew where all the 28 bodies were — to mobilize and get them all," said the second Trump adviser.
"First we got three. Then we got four. Then we got another four," the aide continued, citing incorrect figures on the number of bodies Hamas returned. It transferred four bodies on both Monday and Tuesday, though one of those was later identified as a Paleostinian, while only two bodies — not four — were returned on Wednesday.
"We’re probably going to put together some program where we’re going to ask [Gazooks] to see if they can help us to locate bodies, and we’re going to pay rewards for that type of good behavior," the second Trump adviser revealed.
He added that the US has been in touch with
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, which is willing to send experts to help retrieve bodies, as they have experiences derived from earthquakes. It is not whether Israel would accept such assistance, given the bad blood between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
"The sentiment in Israel is always [that Hamas] can do more. What we basically say to the Israeli side... is, ’Give us whatever intelligence you’re hearing or seeing... If you think that there’s something [the mediators or Hamas] could be doing or should be doing that you don’t think they’re doing, then pass it over and we’ll convey it," the first Trump adviser said.
While recognizing the complexity of the matter, the second Trump adviser stressed that the US is committed to retrieving all remaining bodies of hostages.
"We’re not going to leave here until everybody comes home... Nobody is getting left behind," he said.
The briefing came as the Axios news site reported that Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a top adviser to Netanyahu, accused Hamas of "slow-walking" the returns while speaking with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
Citing US officials, the report added that two senior Israeli officials apparently passed on intelligence to the US showing Hamas has access to more of the bodies than it claims.
"We don’t see Hamas making maximum effort regarding the bodies. We know they can do more and we don’t think anybody should give them any discounts," one of the officials said, as quoted in the report.
The US official told the news outlet that Washington believes Hamas will eventually return all the bodies, "but it is going to take time."
"We will continue working on it but we can’t allow the deal to collapse," the official stressed.
Report: Israeli intel shared with US suggests Hamas has access to more dead hostages than it claims
[IsraelTimes] Israeli intelligence shared with the US claimed that Hamas had access to more bodies than claimed by the Palestinian terror group, Axios reports.
Citing two Israeli officials and one US official, the news outlet reports that Israel has told the US that Hamas is not doing enough to recover the bodies of the dead hostages, and that the Gaza deal cannot move into the next phase until that changes.
“We don’t see Hamas making maximum effort regarding the bodies,” it quotes an Israeli official as saying.
The US official tells Axios that Washington believes Hamas will eventually return all the bodies, “but it is going to take time.”
“We will continue working on it but we can’t allow the deal to collapse,” the official stresses.
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