Israel: Remains returned by Hamas aren't those of hostages. | News.az

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Israel has urged faster progress.
54% : The handover followed Israel's return on Friday of the bodies of 30 Palestinians to Gaza, which completed an exchange after militants turned over remains of two hostages earlier in the week, News.Az reports citing the Korea Times.
50% : Indonesian officials also have called for an independent Palestinian state but underscored the need to "recognize and guarantee the safety and security of Israel.
49% : "With Israel staying in Gaza, I think security is going to be a challenge," Safadi said.
45% : The number of Palestinian bodies returned by Israel since the ceasefire began now stands at 225.
43% : Israel's military offensive has killed more than 68,600 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't distinguish between civilians and combatants.
42% : It was unclear who the remains belonged to. Hamas' armed wing said it had offered to hand over samples on Friday of unidentified bodies but Israel refused and asked for the remains for examination.
40% : "Israel cannot stay in 53 percent of Gaza and then expect security to be achieved.
38% : Israel has been releasing the unidentified remains of 15 Palestinians for the remains of each Israeli hostage.
37% : " The deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas began with the Hamas-led 2023 attack that killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others hostage.
36% : "We handed the bodies over to stop the claims of Israel," the statement said.
36% : The fragile truce faced its biggest challenge earlier this week when Israel carried out strikes across Gaza that killed more than 100 people, following the killing of an Israeli soldier in Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city.
36% : Jordan's foreign minister warned Saturday that Israel maintaining a military presence in Gaza puts the ceasefire at risk.
35% : While Yael Adar, mother of the late Tamir Adar, asserted to a rally in Tel Aviv that "the Hamas scum are mocking us," Moran Harari, friend of the late Carmel Gat, urged Israel to have restraint during a rally in Jerusalem.
32% : Israel, which has denied accusations by a U.N. commission of inquiry and others of committing genocide in Gaza, has disputed the ministry's figures without providing a contradicting toll.
31% : AP-Yonhap Israel said Saturday the three bodies Hamas gave the Red Cross in Gaza are not those of hostages -- another blow to the U.S.-brokered ceasefire bid.
24% : It is unclear if those returned were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel that sparked the war, died in Israeli custody as detainees or were recovered from Gaza by troops during the war.

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