Hamas says gave Israel, mediators details about last Gaza captive’s remains

Israeli forces are searching a Gaza cemetery for the remains of Ran Gvili, the past captive successful the Palestinian territory.

Hamas says it has handed implicit the determination of the remains of the past captive successful Gaza, Israeli worker Ran Gvili, arsenic the second stage of the ceasefire begins successful the war-ravaged enclave.

In a connection connected Sunday, a spokesperson for Hamas’s equipped wing, the Qassam Brigades, said the radical handed implicit the determination of Gvili’s remains with “absolute transparency”, and that it “fulfilled each our obligations successful accordance with the ceasefire agreement”.

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“We are afloat committed to closing this record permanently and person nary involvement successful procrastination. This stance is rooted successful our interest for the interests of our people. Working nether analyzable and astir intolerable conditions, we person successfully recovered and handed implicit the remains of the enemy’s prisoners with the afloat cognition of the mediators,” Abu Obeida said.

“We telephone upon these mediators to uphold their responsibilities and compel the [Israeli] concern to instrumentality what has been agreed upon.”

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau said a largescale cognition was nether mode astatine a cemetery successful bluish Gaza to find the remains. “This effort volition proceed for arsenic agelong arsenic necessary,” his bureau added.

The Israeli subject besides said that hunt operations were nether mode to retrieve Gvili’s assemblage from the alleged “yellow line” country successful Gaza, which splits the country betwixt the determination of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters.

Gvili, a noncommissioned serviceman successful the Israeli police’s elite Yassam unit, was killed successful enactment connected October 7, 2023, during the Hamas-led onslaught successful Israel, and his assemblage was taken to Gaza.

But arsenic portion of United States President Donald Trump’s bid connection for Gaza, Hamas was required to instrumentality each the captives, surviving and dead, from the besieged enclave to Israel.

Amid wide devastation and an Israeli refusal to let for dense machinery, the find of the past captive has been delayed.

Despite not uncovering the captive, US peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff announced past week that the ceasefire was present moving to its 2nd stage, which is apt to spot the opening of the Rafah borderline crossing, the reconstruction of the Strip, and the disarmament of Hamas.

Witkoff connected Sunday said helium and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had met Netanyahu successful Israel connected the erstwhile day, chiefly to sermon Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israeli attacks person continued crossed Gaza, with astatine slightest 3 Palestinians killed successful 2 abstracted incidents, and an Israeli drone wounding 4 others successful Gaza City, the enclave’s Ministry of Health said connected Sunday.

Medics said Israeli forces killed astatine slightest 2 radical eastbound of the Tuffah neighbourhood successful bluish Gaza and a 41-year-old antheral successful Khan Younis successful the south.

Earlier, aesculapian workers ​said an Israeli drone exploded connected the rooftop of a multi-floor gathering successful Gaza City, wounding 4 ‍civilians successful the thoroughfare nearby.