The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group says it will be handing over the body of one of the hostages it has been holding since October 7, 2023, in tomorrow’s release of four slain captives.
Israeli officials have requested that media outlets not publish the name until his family has been notified.
Hamas has already announced that it will be handing over the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two young children Ariel and Kfir.
All four bodies will be taken to the Abu Kabir forensic institute for identification, and only after that will the details be released to the public.
On Saturday, Hamas will be releasing six living hostages: Tal Shoham, Omer Shem-Tov, Eliya Cohen, Omer Wenkert, Avera Mengistu, and Hisham al-Sayed.
According to Hamas’s past statements, the six are the last of those to be returned under the first phase who are alive.
The remaining hostages on the list of 33 captives in the first phase of the ceasefire deal are Shiri Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Ariel Bibas, Itzik Elgarat, Shlomo Mantzur, Ohad Yahalomi, Oded Lifshitz, and Tsahi Idan.
The only name on the list whose death Israel has officially confirmed is Mantzur. Israel has said it has concerns for the other seven.
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