Hamas says it will hand over body of hostage today ‘if conditions suitable’

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19 October 2025, 4:21 pm

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Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

People watch as Palestinians use an excavator to dig deep into the ground, reportedly searching for bodies in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2025 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

The military wing of Hamas says it has found the body of another hostage during ongoing search operations.

“We will transfer the body today if the conditions on the ground are suitable,” it says, adding that “any Zionist escalation will complicate the search and digging operations and the recovery of the bodies, which will lead to a delay in the occupation’s receipt of the bodies.”