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Monday, February 24, 2025
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Monday, February 24, 2025
Israel said to tell mediators it will release prisoners if Hamas returns 4 bodies today without a ceremony
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Coffins apparently containing the bodies of slain Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas, her two children Ariel and Kfir, and Oded Lifshitz, are displayed on a stage with a propaganda message before being handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel has told the mediating countries that it is willing to release the 602 prisoners that it was scheduled to let go on Saturday if Hamas gives back today the four bodies it is supposed to release this week, Ynet reports, citing an Israeli official.
Israel is also demanding that Hamas not perform a ceremony with the coffins, as it did with the bodies of the Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz.
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