A Qassam Brigades militant watches from the side of the road as vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) leave with the second batch of released Israeli hostages released by Hamas in the south of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on October 13, 2025. ©Bashar Taleb / AFP
Israel said its security forces in the Gaza Strip received the remains of two hostages from the Red Cross on Tuesday, returned as part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal.
"Israel has received, through the Red Cross, the coffins of two hostages who were killed, which were handed over to an [Israeli military] and Shin Bet force inside the Gaza Strip," a statement from the prime minister's office said, adding the bodies would be transferred to Israel for identification.
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