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Hamas says it handed over one hostage’s remains to Red Cross; Israel working to ID body UPDATE: partial remains of hostage corpse IDF recovered in 2023, Israel furious about Hamas games

2025-10-28

[IsraelTimes] Terror group returns body for first time in 6 days amid mounting US, Israeli warnings; if body identified as belonging to a hostage, number of captives still in Gaza will drop to 12

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Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
said it handed over the remains of a deceased hostage to the Red Thingy on Monday night, with the body then transferred to Israeli authorities, who were working to confirm their identity.

It was the first time Hamas had handed over a body in six days, as Israel insists that the terror group is dragging its feet on the requirement of the ceasefire that came into place on October 10.

The agreement required Hamas to return all 48 living and deceased hostages within 72 hours, and while the group followed through in handing over all 20 living hostages, it only returned four of the 28 bodies still held 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
within the required timeframe. As of Monday morning, the bodies of 13 deceased hostages were still in Gaza.

Hamas said in its Monday statement that it had "retrieved" a hostage’s remains earlier that day, without elaborating further, while Al Jazeera reported that the body was recovered during a search of Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood in the northern Strip.

The Red Thingy handed over the coffin to IDF troops inside Gaza. The military inspected the casket and draped it in an Israeli flag. A small ceremony led by a military rabbi was then held.

The casket was subsequently transferred to Israel, where police escorted it to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification, a process that officials have said may take up to two days.

If the body is indeed that of a slain hostage, it would leave the remains of twelve hostages in Gaza.

According to a Channel 13 report published prior to the latest handover, Israeli intelligence believed Hamas could locate the remains of 10 of the then-13 slain hostages’ bodies still held in Gaza.

Among those are Col. Asaf Hamami and Lt. Hadar Goldin — the former commander of the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade and a soldier killed in 2014, respectively. Israel believes Hamas is intentionally withholding those bodies because the fallen soldiers have become symbolic figures in Israel, the report added.

Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of intentionally holding onto bodies despite knowing where they are, in violation of the US-brokered agreement that stopped fighting in the two-year-old war.

Hamas front man Hazem Qassem denied this on Monday, saying: "The occupation’s claims that Hamas knows the whereabouts of hostages are false, particularly after the aggression in the Strip [a reference to the war], which has changed the face of the territory."

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said Monday that the war will not be over until the last of the dear departed hostages held in Gaza are brought home, referring to this as a "sacred mission," and also calling for Israel to "continue the campaign against Hamas."

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum on Monday demanded that the next steps in the US-brokered Gaza peace plan be put on hold until Hamas returns the remaining bodies.

"Hamas knows exactly where every one of the dear departed hostages is held. Two weeks have passed since the deadline set in the agreement for the return of all 48 hostages, yet 13 remain in Hamas captivity," the forum said.

"The families urge the Government of Israel, the Trump administration and the mediators not to advance to the next phase of the [Gaza peace plan] until Hamas fulfills all of its obligations and returns every hostage to Israel."

ISRAEL SAID TO FLOAT MOVING CEASEFIRE LINE TO PRESSURE HAMAS
On Sunday, US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
issued a Truth Social post warning that he would be following closely Hamas’s actions over the next 48 hours, suggesting that the group wasn’t doing enough to retrieve the remaining hostages.

The post marked a shift, as the US had largely pushed back on Israeli accusations that Hamas was violating the ceasefire, arguing that it will take time to retrieve some of the bodies as they are buried deep under rubble or in places where Hamas doesn’t know where they are.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
Channel 12 reported that Trump’s post was not meant as a hard deadline for the terror group to return the remaining bodies of slain hostages, as the 48-hour window closed.

Citing unnamed US officials, the network said Trump’s message was intended to signal that he expects Hamas to urgently begin returning the bodies of hostages.

Israel, meanwhile, is continuing to push for a credible threat of action to pressure Hamas to comply with the deal, the network reported, saying that while the US opposes restricting humanitarian aid

to Gaza, Washington is open to discussing an Israeli proposal to move the IDF’s "yellow line" westward — allowing Israeli forces to enter areas previously held by Hamas — if the terror group continues to withhold the dear departed hostages’ bodies.

Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, have told families of both living and slain hostages in recent days that the US is exerting maximum pressure on Hamas to resume the releases, the report said, adding that during Trump’s meeting Saturday with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, he reportedly said he wanted to prioritize the return of the bodies of US citizens Itay Chen and Omer Neutra.

Update at 10:15 a.m.ET:

Casket returned by Hamas had partial remains of hostage whose body IDF had recovered, Israel says

[IsraelTimes] A casket handed over by Hamas
Hamas

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on Monday night to Israel contained the partial remains of Ofir Tzarfati, a hostage whose body was recovered by the military in early December 2023, Israeli officials said.

In addition to not returning the bodies of any of the 13 dead hostages still held in the Gazoo Strip, Hamas staged the "discovery" of Tzarfati’s remains in eastern Gaza City in front of the Red Thingy.

Israel has said Hamas has access to many of the remaining bodies and is dragging its feet in returning them, which it is required to do under the terms of the US-backed ceasefire agreement.

On Monday, Hamas brought the remains of Tzarfati out of a building and placed them in a hole it had dug in the ground in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City. It then covered the body in dirt and pretended to uncover it for the first time in front of the Red Thingy.

The entire incident was filmed by a military drone. The footage leaked to the media later on Tuesday, after Tzarfati’s family was notified by military representatives that additional remains of his body were returned by Hamas.

Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth...
voices from across the political spectrum called on Israel to halt or pause its own commitments under the agreement in response, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to convene an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss possible Israeli reactions.

Tzarfati had been kidnapped from the Nova music festival during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack, where he was celebrating his 27th birthday. He was declared dead the following month, and his body was recovered by the IDF in the Gaza Strip on December 1 and brought back to Israel for burial.

The IDF drone video showed Hamas operatives bringing a body bag from a building to a hole that was dug in the ground, before covering it in dirt. The operatives were then seen digging up the body bag using an excavator, before dumping it nearby.

Red Thingy representatives were seen arriving as the excavator dumped more dirt on the body bag. The Hamas operatives then uncovered the body bag in front of them, with one seen taking pictures with his phone

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