Israel’s authorities stated Tuesday {that a} set of partial hostage stays returned by Hamas the day prior to this belonged to a deceased hostage recovered by the navy round two years in the past, not a kind of whose stays are nonetheless lacking in Gaza. The prime minister’s workplace known as it a violation of the U.S.-brokered peace deal, and stated it was contemplating its response.
“After completing the identification process this morning, it was found that last night remains belonging to the fallen hostage Ofir Tzarfati, who had been returned from the Gaza Strip in a military operation about two years ago, were returned,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace stated.
“This constitutes a clear violation of the [Gaza peace] agreement” by Hamas, Netanyahu’s workplace stated, including that the prime minister would meet with the heads of Israel’s protection institution, “during which Israel’s steps in response to the violations will be discussed.”
Israeli media reported the assembly between Netanyahu and his prime safety chiefs had concluded with none agency selections taken about subsequent steps. Veteran journalist Barak Ravid, with Israel’s Channel 12, stated Netanyahu had instructed his senior aides that any response must be mentioned with the Trump administration.
An Israeli group campaigning for the discharge of hostages held in Gaza urged authorities to “act decisively” towards Hamas, accusing the U.S.- and Israeli-designated terrorist group of violating the peace deal brokered by President Trump by returning solely the partial stays of the beforehand recovered hostage, Tzarfati, slightly than one of many 13 whose our bodies stay in Gaza.
A poster displaying Ofir Tzarfati, who was declared killed after being kidnapped throughout Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist assault on Israel, is seen at a memorial show of images of individuals killed in the course of the assault on the Nova music pageant, Nov. 30, 2023, in Re’im, Israel.
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“In light of Hamas’ severe breach of the agreement last night … the Israeli government cannot and must not ignore this, and must act decisively against these violations,” the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board, which represents lots of the hostage households, stated in a press release.
The discussion board has urged Israel’s leaders to declare Hamas in breach of the peace deal because it began handing over the stays of 28 deceased hostages that had been held within the Gaza Strip.
Later Tuesday the Israel Protection Forces accused Hamas of “attempting to create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies, while in fact holding deceased hostages whose remains it refuses to release as required by the agreement.”
The IDF stated its drones had recorded Hamas operatives “removing body remains from a structure that had been prepared in advance and burying them nearby” on Monday, after which staging “a false display of discovering a deceased hostage’s body.”
The IDF didn’t determine the stays concerned within the incident, however the household of Tzarfati launched a press release saying they have been his.
In a press release shared by the hostage households discussion board, the Tzarfati household stated Hamas had inflicted a deception “upon our family as we try to heal.”
“This morning we were shown video footage of our beloved son’s remains being removed, buried, and handed over to the Red Cross — an abhorrent manipulation designed to sabotage the deal and abandon the effort to bring all the hostages home,” the household was quoted as saying.
President Trump warned on Saturday that he was “watching very closely” to make sure that Hamas returned extra our bodies inside 48 hours.
“Some of the bodies are hard to reach, but others they can return now and, for some reason, they are not,” he wrote on his Fact Social community.
A view reveals the closely broken Al Nassr neighborhood, the place Palestinians wrestle to rebuild their lives amid the rubble after a ceasefire settlement in Gaza Metropolis, Gaza, Oct. 28, 2025, as many buildings have been destroyed and civilian houses and belongings suffered in depth harm.
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Talking with the Al Jazeera community on Tuesday, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem stated the group was speaking all logistical particulars about its effort to find and retrieve hostage stays with a joint operations room established in Cairo. He stated Hamas was updating the mediators on developments recurrently and he accused Israel of obstructing the efforts by not permitting enough heavy tools into Gaza to search out and get better stays.
Israel has permitted some digging machines into Gaza, and Al Jazeera aired stay video on Tuesday that appeared to indicate a Hamas member rising from a newly-cleared entrance to a tunnel within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis holding a number of fingers up, presumably indicating that extra stays had been discovered.
There was no quick phrase from Hamas in regards to the discovery of any extra our bodies.
“Hamas is fully and completely committed to the ceasefire agreement on the Gaza Strip, which includes, among other things, the handover of Israeli captives — alive and dead,” Qassem instructed Al Jazeera. “Over the past period we have worked to hand over whatever remains of the captives’ bodies are available. Now the occupation threatens and vows retaliation. It knows perfectly well that the obstacles preventing the retrieval of more bodies are caused by the occupation itself.”
He stated Israel’s two-year bombardment had “destroyed the Gaza Strip and altered the landmarks of cities, streets and roads — all the markers the resistance [Hamas] could use to locate the remaining bodies,” and accused Israel of utilizing the unfinished handover of stays “as a pretext to sustain its war” in Gaza.
In its assertion on Tuesday, the IDF rejected Hamas’ claims of a scarcity of heavy tools as false.
It stated such tools “is clearly unnecessary for the transfer of remains, and therefore these claims do not constitute an obstacle to the return of the remaining deceased hostages.”
“Some of the deceased hostages may never be found, and that’s part of the reality, but we have to make sure that Hamas is doing everything possible to do it,” Baskin stated.
Throughout negotiations on the Israel-Hamas peace deal, Hamas representatives stated they didn’t know the situation of all of the stays of deceased hostages, in line with Israeli media.
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