"The first five days of the ceasefire in the Strip, however, have been marked by a sense of deja vu, especially due to the unbalanced back-and-forth between Israel and Hamas over the return of the remains of the deceased hostages and the retaliation over the pace at which it is being carried out, which Benjamin Netanyahu's government considers insufficient and malicious."
"The handover of the remains of Israeli hostages again strained the ceasefire agreement in Gaza on Wednesday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that one of the four bodies it received the previous night from Hamas, through the International Committee of the Red Cross, does not correspond to any of the 24 unidentified Israeli hostages, but rather to a Gazan."
"It should have already handed over 105 bodies, compared to the correct nine returned by Hamas, according to the terms of Trump's peace plan, the second phase of which is currently being negotiated. Only 45 have been delivered, however, and according to Ahmad Masoud, director of the Palestinian Center for the Absent and Enforced Disappeared, their names and personal details have not been included, except in three cases."
A five-day ceasefire in Gaza has produced limited calm amid recurring tensions over the handling of hostage remains and prisoner exchanges. Mistakes in returned bodies, threats, and recent Israeli strikes that killed eight Palestinians have undermined optimism from the exchange of 20 living Israeli hostages for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. One of four bodies returned via the Red Cross was identified as a Gazan, not an Israeli hostage. The Rafah crossing remains closed after Israeli forces seized it in May 2024, and Israel has fallen short of the agreed body-return numbers, delivering fewer than required and omitting identifying details.
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