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| Hamas releases two hostages' bodies to Israel as cease-fire exchange resumes |
| 2025-10-31 |
| [NY Post] Well, that didn't work out so well for Hamas Hamas released the bodies of two captives on Thursday as the tenuous cease-fire with Israel holds following a week of conflict and failed hostage exchanges. The Israel Defense Forces received two caskets carrying the bodies from the Red Cross, with the remains taken to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv for identification, the Israeli military said. While initial reports said the process could take up to two days, the hostages were later identified as Amiram Cooper, 84, and Sahar Baruch, 25, the Times of Israel reported. Cooper and his wife, Nurit, were kidnapped from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, and he was killed in captivity in February 2024, with the IDF confirming his death in June 2024, the outlet said. While his wife was freed later that October, Cooper — an economist, poet and composer who was one of the kibbutz’s four founders — was killed in captivity in February 2024, with the IDF confirming his death in June 2024, the outlet said. Engineering student Baruch was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri and killed two months later during a failed rescue mission, the IDF said, adding that its “final conclusions” on their slayings would be revealed after the forensic exams, per TOI. It’s the first exchange to take place after Hamas delivered the partial remains of a slain hostage earlier this week, which belonged to a captive who was already recovered in 2023, prompting the cease-fire to nearly fall apart as Israel launched extensive airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Related: Abu Kabir Forensic Institute: 2025-02-22 Shiri Bibas’s body returned to Israel; officials assess she was ‘brutally’ murdered with sons in Gaza Abu Kabir Forensic Institute: 2025-01-19 Body of Oron Shaul, killed and captured by Hamas in 2014, recovered from Gaza Abu Kabir Forensic Institute: 2025-01-10 IDF confirms death of hostage Hamza Ziyadne, day after father Youssef laid to rest Related: Amiram Cooper 10/22/2025 Bodies of slain hostages Tamir Adar and Arie Zalmanowicz brought back to Israel Amiram Cooper 06/04/2024 Fire rains down from the sky as Israel launches missile attack on Gaza Amiram Cooper 06/04/2024 Israel’s army announces the deaths of four hostages in the Gaza Strip. Related: Sahar Baruch 02/22/2025 Gaza captor told hostages that Hamas collaborates with US campus protesters, lawsuit alleges Sahar Baruch 02/04/2025 US judge dismisses rescued hostage’s lawsuit against company that employed his captor Sahar Baruch 12/23/2024 Report: Failed IDF raid that resulted in death of hostage Sahar Baruch was meant to rescue Noa Argamani |
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