Pink Cross receives stays Hamas says belong to Gaza hostage

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The Pink Cross has obtained a coffin Hamas says comprises the physique of one other deceased hostage held in Gaza.

The stays of 15 hostages who died on or after the 7 October assaults have to date been returned to Israel.

It comes because the Israeli authorities mentioned it has allowed a member of Hamas into territory in Gaza managed by the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) to assist Pink Cross and Egyptian personnel seek for the our bodies of the remaining useless hostages.

Israel accuses Hamas of violating the two-week-old Gaza ceasefire deal as a result of it has not returned all the 28 hostages' our bodies it was holding.

The Palestinian group says it's dedicated to the deal brokered by the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, however that it wants assist to seek out stays buried below the rubble left by two years of battle.

"The Pink Cross, the Egyptian technical crew, and a Hamas particular person have been permitted to enter past the IDF's Yellow Line place in Gaza below shut IDF supervision," authorities spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian instructed a briefing on Monday.

She additionally mentioned the Egyptians would convey in additional tools, together with "tractor-type autos".

All 20 residing Israeli hostages had been launched quickly after the ceasefire took impact on 10 October in trade for 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.

Israel has additionally handed over the our bodies of 195 Palestinians in trade for the our bodies of the 13 Israeli hostages returned by Hamas, together with these of two overseas hostages - one in all them Thai and the opposite Nepalese.

Eleven of the useless hostages nonetheless in Gaza are Israelis, one is Tanzanian, and one is Thai.

"Hamas is aware of the place they're situated and there's no different possibility however for them to be launched again residence," Ms Bedrosian mentioned.

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Earlier, the group representing the Israeli hostages' households demanded that rapid motion be taken to make sure Hamas handed over all of the our bodies. This consists of delaying the second section of US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan.

"The households urge the federal government of Israel, the USA administration, and the mediators to not advance to the subsequent section of the settlement till Hamas fulfils all of its obligations," the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board mentioned.

It got here after Israeli media cited an Israeli safety official as saying that the Trump administration wished to maneuver to the second section even when not all of the hostages had been discovered.

On Saturday, Hamas's chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya mentioned in an announcement that the group was dealing with "challenges" as a result of Israeli forces had "altered the terrain of Gaza".

"Furthermore, a few of those that buried the our bodies have been martyred or now not keep in mind the place they buried them," he added.

All however one of many useless hostages nonetheless in Gaza had been among the many 251 individuals kidnapped in the course of the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, throughout which about 1,200 different individuals had been killed.

Israel responded by launching a navy marketing campaign in Gaza, throughout which greater than 68,500 individuals have been killed, in keeping with the territory's Hamas-run well being ministry.