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Hamas announces it will hand over the remains of an Israeli hostage at 9 p.m. local time pic.twitter.com/V1NMxk5IYP
IDF receives casket with apparent body of hostage from Red Cross in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Remains taken to forensic institute for identification; if confirmed to belong to a captive, six slain hostages will remain in the Strip
A casket containing the apparent remains of a dead hostage held by Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...was brought out of the 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...
Strip by troops Wednesday night.
Hamas handed over the remains to the Red Thingy, which then transferred them to Israeli soldiers in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces inspected the casket before draping it in an Israeli flag and holding a short ceremony led by a military rabbi.
After leaving the Strip, the body was escorted by the police to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification, a process which officials said may take up to two days.
Hamas did not provide the identity of the hostage it handed over.
If the body is confirmed to belong to a hostage, it would mean that the remains of six hostages are still held in Gaza.
On Tuesday, Hamas returned the body of Staff Sgt. Itay Chen, two days after handing over their remains of fellow IDF soldiers Col. Asaf Hamami, Cpt. Omer Neutra and Staff Sgt. Oz Daniel.
The slain hostages still in Gaza include those kidnapped in the Hamas-led onslaught on October 7, 2023, and the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed fighting Hamas in Gaza in 2014 and whose body has been held in the Strip since then.
| Update from the Times of Israel at 9:35 a.m.ET |