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Hamas says it will hand over hostage’s body at 8 p.m., says it was ‘found yesterday’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
An armed Palestinian man looks on as an excavator is used to dig deep into the ground, reportedly searching for hostage bodies, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2025 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Hamas’s military wing announces that it will transfer the body of a hostage to Israel this evening at 8 p.m.
The body was “found yesterday,” the terror group says.
On Sunday, Hamas said it would hand over the body of a hostage “if conditions on the ground allowed,” and in the end no transfer to Israel took place.
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