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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Hamas says body of hostage has been recovered, will hand it over to Israel at 5 p.m.
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Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, says it will hand over the body of a deceased hostage to Israel at 5 p.m. today after it was discovered in the northern Gaza Strip during a search conducted along with Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades.
The Hamas-affiliated outlet Quds News Network earlier reported that the Quds Brigades and Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades located human remains believed to belong to a deceased hostage in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. The outlet also published a photo of masked gunmen carrying a body bag.
Beit Lahiya lies on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line.
The bodies of two hostages killed on October 7, 2023, remain in Gaza: Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, killed fending off the Hamas-led attack on Kibbutz Alumim; and Sudthisak Rinthalak, a Thai national killed in Kibbutz Be’eri, where he worked in agriculture.
عاجل| تغطية صحفية.. كتــائب القــسام وســرايا القدس تعثران على جثة من المحتمل أن تكون لأسير إسرائيلي في بيت لاهيا شمال قطاع غزة. pic.twitter.com/J7EvDjpU6T
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