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IDF: Red Cross heading to handover site to collect body of hostage from Hamas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
A gunman wearing the uniform of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stands guard as Red Cross vehicles enter a warehouse to collect coffins said to contain the bodies of four hostages, in Gaza City, October 14, 2025. (AP Photo/ Yousef Al Zanoun)
Red Cross vehicles are now heading to a handover site in the southern Gaza Strip to collect the body of a hostage from Hamas, the IDF says.
Hamas did not identify the hostage whose body it is set to hand over.
The terror group said that it “retrieved” the body yesterday.
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