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Casket handed over by Hamas believed to contain further remains of previously returned hostage
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Members of the Red Cross observe an operation to recover the body of a hostage in the al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City on October 27, 2025 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
The casket Hamas handed over to Israel last night is assessed to contain remains belonging to a hostage whose body was already brought back to Israel for burial, The Times of Israel has learned.
The remains do not belong to any of the 13 hostages currently held in the Gaza Strip.
The assessment is made by authorities following the completion of identification efforts at the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv.
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