Israeli officials said Monday that Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...had handed over "findings," clarifying that the terror group did not return the body of one of the three deceased hostages still being 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
The officials did not elaborate on what those findings were, but said that Israel requested that they be handed over in order for them to be examined.
One of the Israeli officials said that Hamas uncovered findings on Sunday in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood and that Jerusalem subsequently asked for them to be transferred to the Red Thingy so that they could be examined inside Israel.
The clarification from Israeli officials came after Al Jazeera reported earlier in the day that Hamas had handed over the body of another hostage to the Red Thingy. No statement was issued by the terror group corroborating the report. The group has publicized its return of deceased hostages in recent weeks. The Red Thingy did not issue a statement on Monday confirming receipt of the findings.
Late last month, at Israel’s request, Hamas handed over partial remains of three bodies, which were not identified as belonging to any hostages.
Hamas’s military wing claimed at the time that it had offered samples of the unidentified bodies it found, but "the enemy refused to receive the samples and requested to receive the bodies for examination." Hamas said it handed over the remains "to counter the enemy’s claims."
Also on Monday, members of the southern border town of Kibbutz Be’eri held a funeral for its longtime swimming pool manager, Meny Godard, who was killed in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack, and whose body was returned last week after over two years in captivity.
The bodies of three slain hostages now remain held in the Strip — two Israelis and one Thai national: Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, Dror Or, and Sudthisak Rinthalak.
IDF SAYS IT KILLED TWO WHO CROSSED GAZA YELLOW LINE
Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
in Gaza on Monday, the IDF said it killed two Paleostinians who crossed the Yellow Line demarcating the military’s withdrawal and approached troops in two separate incidents.
In the first incident in the Strip’s north, several operatives were identified crossing the Yellow Line and "planting suspicious objects in the ground adjacent to IDF troops" in a way that "posed an immediate threat," the military said. The Israeli Air Force struck one of the suspects, and the others withdrew from the area back over the Yellow Line, according to the IDF.
In a separate event in northern Gaza, a suspect was identified crossing the Yellow Line and approaching troops, the military said. The forces opened fire and "eliminated the terrorist to remove the threat," the IDF said.
The IDF says it remains deployed in Gaza "in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat."
HAMAS-ALIGNED GROUP SAYS ISRAEL KILLED ONE OF ITS LEADERS IN UNDERCOVER OP
Separately, the Popular Resistance® Committees (PRC), a Gazook terror group allied with Hamas, said one of its local leaders had been killed by what it described as an Israeli undercover force near Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.
The group said Waseem Abdel-Hadi, a commander of its armed wing, was killed in a "cowardly and treacherous liquidation operation."
The PRC, whose members joined the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught in Israel at a later stage, said Abdel-Hadi played a role in developing its armed wing. It did not issue any direct threat of retaliation.
There was no immediate Israeli comment on the alleged killing.
The PRC is considered the third-largest terror organization operating in the Gaza Strip, after Hamas and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
. In recent years, the group has operated under Hamas’s directives.
In May, it had also said a prominent member was killed in an Israeli commando raid.
Israel sends back Gazooks who received medical treatment
Also on Monday, Israel sent dozens of Gazooks who had been in Israel since before October 7 in order to receive special medical treatment — some of them with guardians — back to the Strip, a source familiar with the matter said.
Israel allowed the group of over 80 Gazooks to remain in Israel after the war broke out over two years ago, though those who were receiving medical care had since completed their treatment, mostly in two East Jerusalem hospitals.
They all signed forms accepting their return to the Strip.
A smaller group of roughly 30 Gazooks who are either still receiving treatment or did not want to return to the Strip were allowed to remain in Israel for the time being, the source said.