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Report: Israeli intel shared with US suggests Hamas has access to more dead hostages than it claims
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsraeli intelligence shared with the US claimed that Hamas had access to more bodies than claimed by the Palestinian terror group, Axios reports.
Citing two Israeli officials and one US official, the news outlet reports that Israel has told the US that Hamas is not doing enough to recover the bodies of the dead hostages, and that the Gaza deal cannot move into the next phase until that changes.
“We don’t see Hamas making maximum effort regarding the bodies,” it quotes an Israeli official as saying.
The US official tells Axios that Washington believes Hamas will eventually return all the bodies, “but it is going to take time.”
“We will continue working on it but we can’t allow the deal to collapse,” the official stresses.
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