Hamas hands over two bodies after Israel resumes attacks on Gaza

The Palestinian radical Hamas has handed implicit 2 bodies it said were of deceased Israeli captives, a time aft the fragile Gaza ceasefire was shattered by a bid of deadly Israeli strikes crossed the besieged enclave.

The bureau of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said connected Thursday that the 2 bodies had been received by Israeli forces via the Red Cross successful Gaza and would beryllium transported into Israel for identification.

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Under the US-brokered accord to halt Israel’s two-year warfare connected Gaza, Hamas released 20 surviving captives successful speech for Israel releasing astir 2,000 Palestinian governmental prisoners. Israeli forces person besides completed a partial withdrawal from municipality centres successful Gaza.

But since the ceasefire took effect connected October 10, Israeli attacks person killed dozens of Palestinians crossed the enclave. From Tuesday into Wednesday, the Health Ministry successful Gaza said Israeli attacks killed 104 people, including 46 children and 20 women.

As portion of the agreement, Hamas committed to returning the remains of each 28 captives, successful speech for the bodies of Palestinians killed successful the war. By Thursday, it had handed implicit 15 sets of remains, saying it continues to property for due instrumentality and enactment to comb done immense mounds of rubble and debris — wherever thousands of Palestinians killed successful Israeli bombardments are inactive buried.

Israel claims Hamas has been excessively dilatory to manus implicit the remaining bodies of Israeli captives inactive successful Gaza.

Reporting from az-Zuwayda successful cardinal Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said Hamas is inactive facing “logistical and operational challenges regarding the retrieval of the bodies, specifically successful areas that person been impacted by the Israeli bombardment”.

“Hamas has been calling for the introduction of dense bulldozers and machines successful bid to facilitate the process of recovering bodies. But connected the ground, Israel is inactive accusing Hamas of deliberately procrastinating the merchandise of the bodies,” Abu Azzoum said.

The quality implicit the betterment and handover of bodies has been 1 of the difficulties complicating US President Donald Trump’s program to extremity the warfare for good.

Numerous large obstacles inactive prevarication ahead, including the aboriginal medication of Gaza and the request for Hamas to disarm.

‘Essential relation of NGOs’

Earlier, witnesses said Israeli planes carried retired 10 aerial strikes successful areas eastbound of Khan Younis successful the confederate Gaza Strip, and tanks shelled areas eastbound of Gaza City successful the northbound earlier dawn.

The Israeli subject said it carried retired “precise” strikes against “terrorist infrastructure that posed a menace to the troops” successful the areas of Gaza wherever its forces are inactive present.

Meanwhile, a UN authoritative said much than 24,000 tonnes of UN assistance person reached Gaza since the commencement of a ceasefire, portion calling for NGOs to beryllium allowed to assistance successful its distribution.

While assistance volumes are importantly up compared with the play earlier the ceasefire, humanitarians inactive look backing shortfalls, the UN says, arsenic good arsenic issues coordinating with Israeli authorities, which are continuing to seal captious borderline crossings.

The World Food Programme’s Middle East Regional Director Samer Abdel Jaber said successful 20 days of scale-up pursuing the ceasefire, they “have collected astir 20,000 metric tons of nutrient wrong Gaza”.

“The implementation of the 20-point [ceasefire] program remains to beryllium the cardinal constituent and the cardinal information for america to beryllium capable to present humanitarian assistance successful a holistic manner,” Alakbarov said.

He called connected Israel to let much NGOs to enactment successful the transportation of assistance successful Gaza, which Israel has banned.

“The persisting contented of registration of NGOs remains to beryllium a bottleneck issue. We proceed to emphasise the indispensable relation of NGOs and nationalist NGOs, which they play successful humanitarian operations successful Gaza, and we person escalated this now,” helium said.

Israel’s battle has displaced astir of Gaza’s much than 2 cardinal people, galore of them respective times. The bulk haven’t yet returned to their ravaged neighbourhoods, fearing they could soon beryllium displaced erstwhile again oregon killed by Israeli forces.

Sources told Al Jazeera that the Israeli service carried retired location demolitions eastbound of the Tuffah and Shujayea neighbourhoods successful eastbound Gaza City connected Thursday.

Israel has been demolishing homes since the commencement of its renewed crushed incursion successful the country earlier this month, portion of what residents picture arsenic a systematic run to wide ample swaths of residential blocks.

Entire streets person been levelled, with bulldozers flattening homes and infrastructure arsenic Israeli forces propulsion deeper into Gaza City’s eastbound districts.