Hamas says it managed to ‘retrieve’ 2 bodies of hostages today

The military wing of the Hamas terror group announces that it managed to “retrieve” the bodies of two hostages in the Gaza Strip today, although it does not say it intends to hand them over to Israel tonight.

The Al-Qassam Brigades names the two hostages it claims to have found today. Israeli media outlets generally refrain from publishing the names until the families of the hostages have been notified.

Earlier, Hamas said it had located the body of a hostage in a tunnel in southern Gaza, and planned to hand it over to Israel at 8 p.m. Hamas later said it was postponing the handover due to Israel’s “violations” of the ceasefire.

Israel has accused Hamas of multiple violations of the current ceasefire deal, charging that the terror group knows where the vast majority or even all the remaining bodies of hostages are, and is purposely stalling and staging fake discoveries of bodies.