Red Cross vehicles heading to collect apparent body of hostage from Hamas in southern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

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13 November 2025, 7:44 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Illustrative: Hamas operatives accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) head to east of Gaza City to search for the bodies of hostages, November 13, 2025. (AP Photo/ Jehand Alshrafi)

Red Cross vehicles are now heading to a handover site in the southern Gaza Strip to collect the apparent remains of a deceased hostage from Hamas, the IDF says.

Hamas, in a joint statement with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said earlier that the body had been located in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.

Footage aired by Al Jazeera of the supposed recovery of the remains showed Hamas members placing the photo of one of the hostages — who had been murdered and abducted by the Islamic Jihad on October 7 — on the body bag.