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PM’s office says no new updates from Gaza mediators after report claims Hamas in process of recovering up to 9 bodies of hostages
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
The Prime Minister’s Office denies that there have been any updates from mediators regarding plans for Hamas to transfer additional bodies of hostages back to Israel, after the Saudi Al-Sharq channel reported that the terror group was in the process of recovering between seven and nine bodies of hostages from unspecified locations within the Gaza Strip.
The report claims that Hamas intends to transfer the bodies to the Red Cross after they have been recovered, although it does not give an exact timeframe for the purported handover.
The Prime Minister’s Office tells The Times of Israel that no information has been received from the mediators regarding the transfer of seven to nine bodies of hostages.
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