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Pressure for ceasefire was seen between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday after israel Said to have returned a body among the remains hostages Does not match any prisoner.
Israeli army said this on Wednesday morning One of the four bodies brought back late Tuesday night did not match Any of the 21 are still considered Gaza,
After the remains of Guy Illouz, Bipin Joshi, Yossi Sharabi and Daniel Peretz were returned on Monday, relatives identified the bodies of Uriel Baruch, Tamir Nimrodi and Eitan Levi. Hamas He released all 20 surviving hostages in his custody On Monday.
Palestinian groups handed over the remains of two more hostages on Wednesday, just hours after the Israeli military revealed that one of the bodies was not one of the hostages. This confusion increased the tension regarding the delicate situation ceasefire Which has stopped two years of war.
Both bodies were transferred from Hamas by the Red Cross. After the coffins arrived in Israel, the army cautioned in a statement that the identities of the hostages had not yet been verified.
Hamas said in a statement that it had returned all the bodies it could reasonably recover and that special equipment would be required to hand over the remaining bodies.
The Red Cross said the delay would be due to difficulties in finding bodies amid Gaza’s debris. “This is a bigger challenge than just freeing the survivors. This is a bigger challenge,” Red Cross spokesman Christian Cardon told Sky News.
The delay in the return of the hostages’ bodies has sparked a furious political reaction in Israel and anger among families who had hoped their loved ones would be returned on Monday.
Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s far-right extremist minister of national security, wrote on Telegram on Wednesday that “after opening the gates to hundreds of trucks, Hamas quickly returned to its well-known ways – lying, cheating and abusing families and bodies”.
He said, “The Nazi terror understands only force, and the only way to solve the problems with it is to wipe it off the face of the earth.”
US President Donald Trump has said he would consider allowing Israeli forces to resume fighting in Gaza if Hamas fails to meet a ceasefire agreement.
Mr Trump was quoted by CNN as saying in a brief telephone call, when asked what would happen if Hamas refused to disarm, “As soon as I say the word, the Israelis will be back on those streets. If the Israelis can go in and kill them, they will.”
Aid remains a delicate issue in the ceasefire, with Gaza’s ailing population still in desperate need of fuel, food, water and medicine.
Trucks were able to cross into Gaza at some crossings, but Israel kept the main Rafah crossing to the south closed, claiming that Hamas was returning bodies too slowly.
An Israeli security official told Independent The crossing will not open on Wednesday and “no such agreement has been reached at any level”, amid conflicting reports suggesting it will remain open to convoys carrying aid.
“The date for opening the crossing only for movement of people will be announced later,” the source said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman, Shosh Bedrosian, claimed that humanitarian aid “has never stopped going to the Gaza Strip” despite repeated warnings by UN agencies and international aid organizations about the devastating impact of Israel’s intermittent full and partial blockade.
With questions rising over the integrity of the ceasefire, Ms Bedrosian also stressed that Hamas “must uphold its commitments to mediators and return all our hostages”.
“We will not compromise on this and will leave no stone unturned until all our hostages are returned,” he said.
Tamara al-Rifay, spokeswoman for the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, said Independent That “at a minimum”, they require 500 to 600 truckloads of supplies per day to enter Gaza to meet the unprecedented needs of civilians hit by famine.
For this to happen, Ms Riffe said aid organizations needed to open as many crossings as possible to prevent bottlenecks and delays caused by “cumbersome scanning and verification of their material”.
As a result, the closure of Rafah, one of the most important crossings into Egypt, where most major UN and aid agencies have warehouses of supplies, has a significant impact on aid delivery.
“Having only two crossings open right now means that the capacity to process trucks is limited. It is not enough to process the number of trucks set by this agreement, which was already reduced by Israel yesterday.”
“By closing Rafah, all Egyptian goods will have to take a detour to other crossings. Our call from the beginning [to] “Open all crossing points to enable humanitarian assurance, adequate levels of processing of food and other essential supplies.”
Although the full text of the ceasefire agreement has not been made publicly available, elements published by Israeli media appear to acknowledge that Hamas is unlikely to be able to retrieve all the bodies of the dead hostages within the stipulated time frame.
Meanwhile, authorities in Gaza were still working to identify the bodies of 90 Palestinians returned by Israel.
Dr. Ahmed Duhair, director of forensic medicine at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, who received the body, said Independent They were not provided with all the names or descriptions, or photographs, of the individuals.
He also said that most of the bodies were naked except for their underwear, and in most cases their wrists and ankles were tied “There were obvious injuries and marks on their bodies, indicating that torture devices were used”.
Two were blindfolded, while one had a rope around his neck.
Other hospital officials told CNN that some had gunshot wounds, “while others had been crushed by tanks”.