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Red Cross official confirms team readying to pick up hostages’ bodies from Hamas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
The Red Cross is about to head toward the handover point where it will receive the bodies of hostages from Hamas, a senior ICRC official tells The Times of Israel.
“Our team is about to start moving,” says the official. “We haven’t started yet.”
Earlier today, the terror group announced that it would hand over the bodies of two hostages, whose names were not specified, at 10 p.m. Israel time.
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