Hamas hands over four bodies

Hamas conveyed what he writes are the bodies of four Israeli hostages from Gaza, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Israel tests DNA samples to confirm that the remains of Shlomo Mansour, 86, Ohad Yahalomi, 50, Tsachi Idan, 50, and ITZIK ELGARAT, 69, all of which were taken from Hamas on October 7, 2023.

At the beginning of Thursday, Israel began to release more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, with dozens returning to the occupied West Coast and Gaza, where they were greeted by cheerful crowds.

This will be the last exchange of the first phase of the fire termination transaction to be completed on Saturday.

Israel is yet to confirm the results of DNA tests conducted on the four bodies returned as part of the stock exchange.

Initial tests are expected to happen near the border of Israel-Gaza, and later Israeli media reported that they had been transported to a forensic laboratory in Tel Aviv.

He comes after the body of a Palestinian Gaza woman was passed on by Hamas in Israel, instead of the body of Israeli Bibs, last Thursday, provoking rage in Israel. Hamas said this was a misconception and later handed Israel to Israel that it was Bibass.

Hamas betrayed the bodies to a private, without a public ceremony, as Israel, as opposed to previous exchanges.

Israel has accused Hamas of “humiliating” broadcast ceremonies – and delayed the release of prisoners last weekend because of what it is said to be the cruel attitude towards the hostages in the show.

Prior to Wednesday, an employee of Hamas told the AFP news agency that the return of the four bodies would be “without public presence to prevent the occupation from finding some pretext of delaying or obstacles.”

Photos published by Reuters news agency showed a bus carrying what they are thought to be Palestinian prisoners from the bid prison on the west coast late Wednesday.

A bus carrying Palestinian prisoners has later arrived at a checkpoint at the Ramala Cultural Palace, where a large crowd gathered to celebrate their release.

Later, dozens of Palestinian prisoners were seen coming off buses in front of a hospital in Han Henis, Gaza.

Palestinian prisoners, who are expected to be released, include more than 400 gazan detained by the Israeli forces during the war, and 50 prisoners serving life in Israeli prisons.

Together with Prison, a bidder on the west coast, Israel said earlier that prisoners would be released from Ketziot prison in South Israel.

Hamas prisoners' media office said Gaza Hospital was preparing to receive the released Palestinians.

The 50 -year -old Idan was taken away by Hamas artillerymen from his home in Nasal Oz. His biggest child Maayan – just 18 years old – was shot in the attack. In August, Tsachi's wife, Gali, told us on television that the latter she heard about her husband was a report of hostages issued in November 2023.

In a statement through the hostage forum and the missing families, the Tsachi family said he was “with great sadness” that they had learned “our beloved Tsachi is no longer alive and that his body will be returned to Israel at night.”

69 -year -old ICC Elgarate was abducted by Nir Oz and reported that he had fired into his hand during the attack. His phone was traced to the gas after the attack.

The 50-year-old Ohad Yahalomi was abducted by Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the termination of fire in November.

In February 2025, the IDF said he had informed the family of Iraqi, Schlomo Mansour, 86, that he was killed by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and his body was taken to Gaza.

The exchange is the last before the current phase of the fire termination transaction ends on Saturday.

It is unclear whether the truce will be extended or switch to the second phase, which will see the release of all other hostages in Gaza in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners.

Negotiations for the second phase were due to start during the first phase – but it is believed that they are yet to begin.

The release of hostages on Wednesday follows days of impasse between Israel and Hamas – which was authorized by intermediaries on Tuesday.

Israel is believed to have released over 600 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, in exchange for the six living and four dead hostages passed on by Hamas last week.

But Israel delayed the releaseIn protest of what was being said was Hamas's cruel attitude towards Israeli hostage as they were betrayed.

Also on Wednesday, thousands of Israeli lined the roads of southern Israel For the funeral procession of three hostages who were killed in captivity In Gaza – wide Bibs and her two sons, Ariel and Kfir.

The Israeli television channels wore a live broadcast on the stage and – after a private funeral – public praise from relatives, with crowds that gathered to watch on large screens on Tel Aviv's hostage square.

Kfir, nine months old from Kibbutz Nir Oz, was the youngest of the 251 hostages grabbed in the attacks led by Hamas, October 7, 2023. His brother Ariel was only four.

Bibs and her children were buried in a coffin to the last place to rest her parents, Jossi and Margit Silberman, who lived in the same Kibbutz and were killed there on October 7th.

A total of about 1,200 people were killed and 251 people took hostages. He lit the deadliest war in Gaza's history, which killed over 48,000 people, according to Hamas Health Ministry.