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Officials confirm Red Cross collected body from Hamas in Gaza
The Red Cross collected a body from Hamas in the Gaza Strip a short while ago, two officials, including a senior Arab diplomat, tell The Times of Israel.
The body has not yet been handed over to the Israel Defense Forces. Once in Israeli hands, the remains will be taken to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute for identification.
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardwai tells Hamas-run Al-Aqsa television that the group handed over the body of Shiri Bibas.
Hamas previously claimed Thursday to return Bibas’s body to Israel along with the bodies of her two sons Ariel and Kfir. The body purported to be Shiri’s was found to be that of a Gazan woman.
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