The bodies of three members of the same family, including two children, and an 84 -year -old man were returned by the terrorist group.
Hamas returned the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday, including a mother and two children. These are The Bibas familywhose father, Yarden, was released on February 1.
Hamas said they were all three was killed in Israeli air strikes at the very beginning of the war.
The last body is that ofODED LIFSHITZa 84 -year -old former journalist. His wife was released last October.
Hundreds of people, mostly masked fighters in Hamas, gathered on the site of the restitution, on the outskirts of the city of Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip. Masked and armed Hamas activists have once again staged, exhibiting the 4 coffins on a platform, each carrying the photo of one of the hostages, in front of a giant portrait of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu grimted in vampire and covered blood, making him responsible for the death of the hostages.
The bodies must be transported to an institute of legal medicine in Tel Aviv, to be formally identified.
It was the first time since the start of the truce that the Palestinian movement has given deceased hostages.
Hamas announced that it will release six other hostages on Saturday, the last of the 33 captives whose release was planned in the first phase of the ceasefire.
Israeli president Isaac Herzog said all his sadness and that of the whole country, in a post on X shortly after.
Negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire are underway
The Israelis have so far recovered 24 living hostages in recent weeks as part of a fragile ceasefire which has ended more than 15 months of war. The presentation of the hostages, Thursday, will recall the memory of those who died in captivity while the talks leading to the truce lasted more than a year.
On the other hand, it could also give momentum to negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire, which barely started.
This second phase, which must enter into force in March, would imply the release by the Islamist group of dozens of additional hostages in exchange for a sustainable ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.
The Israeli government claims to want to eliminate the military and administrative capacities of Hamas in Gaza, but the terrorist group quickly reaffirmed its control over the Gaza Strip during the ceasefire, although it has lost several Hauts-Dirigeants and many fighters.
