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2026-01-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel says Rafah Crossing to reopen when IDF finishes search for last hostage body
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[IsraelTimes] No timeline given by Netanyahu’s office on search for Ran Gvili, but US official says operation expected to last several days, allowing crossing to open by end of week
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Sunday that Israel will reopen the Rafah Crossing between Gazoo
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and Egypt after it completes a military operation launched Sunday to recover the body of the last deceased hostage, Master Sgt. Ran Gvili.
The announcement followed a security cabinet meeting on the issue, and as Israel has faced significant international pressure to reopen the Rafah Crossing.
While the statement from Netanyahu’s office did not give a specific timeline for how long the IDF operation seeking to recover Gvili’s body will take, a US official told The Times of Israel that Washington expects the search to last several days, allowing for the reopening of Rafah by the end of this week.
The IDF confirmed earlier on Sunday evening that it is searching for Gvili’s body in a cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF said that while it is credible that Gvili’s remains are located at the cemetery, there are other potential intelligence leads on where his body could be.
The chief commissioner of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza and the Gaza envoy for the NCAG-overseeing Board of Peace already announced on Thursday that Rafah would reopen this week for the first time in nearly one year.
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement Sunday that the opening of the only crossing between Egypt and Gaza was conditioned "on the return of all living hostages and on Hamas
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making a 100% effort to locate and return all slain hostages."
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’s broader Gaza peace plan provided for the return of all hostages within 72 hours of the October 10 ceasefire commencement, but it left open the possibility that the recovery of bodies from underneath Gaza’s rubble might take longer and did not explicitly condition Rafah’s reopening on the return of all captives.
Israel has resisted moving forward with phase two of Trump’s peace plan — including reopening the Rafah Crossing between the Strip and Egypt — before Gvili’s body has been returned. Hamas has maintained that it does not know the exact location of his remains and has made attempts to search.
The PMO statement said that the IDF is right now conducting "a focused operation to fully utilize all intelligence obtained in the effort to locate and return" Gvili.
When that operation is complete, "and in accordance with what was agreed on with the United States," Israel will reopen the crossing, Netanyahu’s office said.
Netanyahu’s office stressed that Israel is committed to Gvili’s return and will do everything it can to bring his body back.
The search operation began over the weekend, based on intelligence information that the body was buried at a Moslem cemetery in eastern Gaza City, near the neighborhoods of Shejaiya, Daraj, and Tuffah.
Gvili, a 24-year-old policeman, was killed defending Kibbutz Alumim in southern Israel during the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza. He rushed to the fight even as he was awaiting surgery for a shoulder injury.
On Friday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir stopped at the weekly rally held by Gvili’s family in Tel Aviv and reportedly told his parents that there was "room for optimism" for their son’s return.
While it was also used for goods throughout the war, the Rafah Crossing’s intended use is for pedestrians.
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