Israel has confirmed that they’ve received four more bodies from Hamas today, according to Reuters:
Hamas handed over more bodies of deceased hostages after Israel threatened to reduce aid into Gaza on Tuesday and U.S. President Donald Trump threatened violence against the Palestinian militant group if it does not disarm.
A day after Trump spoke in Jerusalem, touting his plan to end the war, Hamas’ re-emergent fighters executed men in the street and Israel told the United Nations it will allow only half the daily number agreed in last week’s ceasefire deal.
Israeli officials said Israel had decided to restrict aid and delay plans to open the southern border crossing to Egypt because Hamas had violated the ceasefire deal by failing to turn over bodies of hostages who had died after being captured in Hamas’s invasion of Israel in October 2023.
Hours later, Hamas informed mediators it will transfer four bodies to Israel from 1900 GMT, an official involved in the operation told Reuters.
Later, the Israeli military said the Red Cross had received four coffins from Hamas and was on the way to hand over the remains to Israeli forces.
According to other reports, Hamas is claiming it takes heavy equipment to get to all the bodies:
Sources in Hamas told the Saudi channel Al-Sharq: Hamas’s military wing handed over several deceased Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in northern Gaza. Reaching some of the bodies requires heavy equipment and time, and we have informed the mediators. https://t.co/iUIGzXVgEl
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Sounds like they are going to take their sweet time. Ugh.