Hamas hands over hostage bodies after Israel threatens aid cut

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Hamas handed over extra our bodies of deceased hostages to Israel on Tuesday, one signal of progress after plenty of obvious setbacks within the day since US President Donald Trump touted his plan to finish the Gaza conflict

The our bodies had been returned after Israel introduced it might reduce in half the variety of humanitarian assist vans allowed into Gaza in a transfer to punish Hamas for what Israel known as the phobia group’s violation of its settlement to switch stays beneath the cease-fire deal reached final week.

In the meantime, re-emergent Hamas fighters demonstrated they had been reasserting management in Gaza by deploying lots of of safety forces within the streets and executing a number of individuals they accused of collaborating with Israel.

An armed Hamas terrorist stands guard as a Pink Cross automobile arrives to obtain our bodies of hostages from the phobia group in Gaza Metropolis on Oct. 14, 2025. REUTERS

The outlook for Trump’s peace plan darkened additional when the president threatened Hamas with army strikes except the terrorist group disarmed.

“In the event that they don’t disarm, we'll disarm them. And it'll occur shortly and maybe violently,” Trump stated on the White Home, in the future after he spoke earlier than the Knesset in Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained the conflict can't finish till Hamas surrenders its weapons and cedes management of Gaza, a requirement the fighters have rejected.

On Monday, Trump proclaimed the “historic daybreak of a brand new Center East” to Israel’s parliament, as Israel and Hamas had been exchanging the final 20 residing Israeli hostages in Gaza for practically 2,000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners.

However the return of 28 lifeless hostages has remained one of many ultimate particulars to be labored out within the deal to finish greater than two years of hostilities that started with Hamas assaults on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Israeli protesters collect on the Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv calling for the discharge of all of the our bodies of Israeli hostages on Oct. 14, 2025. AFP through Getty Pictures

Israeli army members salute autos carrying the our bodies of hostages being returned by Hamas in Tel Aviv on Oct. 15, 2025. AFP through Getty Pictures

Hamas has now handed over eight coffins of lifeless hostages, leaving a minimum of 19 presumed lifeless and one unaccounted for nonetheless within the Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday, the Israeli army stated it obtained 4 coffins from the Pink Cross at a gathering level in northern Gaza Strip.

These coffins, escorted by Israeli forces, crossed the border into Israel shortly earlier than midnight and had been being taken for forensic identification, the Israeli army stated.

Hamas additionally confirmed the switch was beneath approach.

“At this second, the lads are persevering with to oversee the implementation of what was agreed upon relating to the handover of our bodies as a part of the settlement to finish the conflict in Gaza,” Hamas spokesperson in Gaza Hazem Qassem on Fb.

It was not instantly clear if the handing over of our bodies was adequate for Israel to revive a full complement of assist deliveries.

Israeli officers stated they'd determined to limit assist, permitting solely half the agreed variety of assist vans into Gaza beginning Wednesday, and to delay plans to open the southern border crossing to Egypt as a result of Hamas had violated the cease-fire deal by failing to show over our bodies of hostages.

Israel’s two-year assault has left a lot of the enclave in ruins and Gaza Metropolis and surrounding areas are affected by a famine that has greater than half 1,000,000 Palestinians, creating nice want for an anticipated 600 assist vans to enter Gaza each day in the course of the cease-fire.

Plans have but to be applied to open the crossing to Egypt to let some Gazans out, initially to evacuate the wounded for medical remedy.

Individuals collect in Hostages Sq. in Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 14, 2025. REUTERS

HAMAS ASSERTS CONTROL

Hamas, which seized Gaza in a short 2007 civil conflict, has swiftly reclaimed the streets of Gaza’s city areas following the partial withdrawal of Israeli troops final week. Gaza residents stated Hamas fighters had been more and more seen on Tuesday, deploying alongside routes wanted for assist deliveries.

In a video circulated late on Monday, Hamas fighters dragged seven males with arms tied behind their backs right into a Gaza Metropolis sq., pressured them to their knees and shot them from behind, as dozens of onlookers watched from close by storefronts.

A Hamas supply confirmed that the video was taken on Monday and that Hamas fighters participated within the executions. Reuters was in a position to verify the situation by seen geographic options.

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Trump has beforehand given his blessing to Hamas to reassert some management of Gaza, a minimum of briefly.

sraeli officers have to this point avoided commenting publicly on the re-emergence of the group’s fighters.

Palestinian safety officers stated dozens of individuals had been killed in clashes between Hamas fighters and rivals in current days.

As well as Israel, utilizing aerial drones, killed 5 Palestinians as they went to verify on homes in a suburb east of Gaza Metropolis, and an Israeli airstrike killed one individual and injured one other close to Khan Younis, Gaza well being authorities stated.

1000's of Israelis collect at evening in Tel Aviv to rejoice the the ‘hakafot’ ritual of Simchat Torah on Oct. 14, 2025. Getty Pictures

Israelis wave Israel flags throughout a celebration of the vacation of Simchat Torah. AP

Hamas accused Israel of violating the cease-fire.

The Israeli army stated it had fired on individuals who crossed truce strains and approached its forces after ignoring calls to show again.

Hamas sources instructed Reuters on Tuesday the group would tolerate no extra violations of order in Gaza and would goal collaborators, armed looters and drug sellers.

The cease-fire has stopped two years of devastating warfare in Gaza triggered by the October 7, 2023 assault by which Hamas-led gunmen killed round 1,200 individuals and took 251 hostages again to Gaza, based on Israeli tallies.

Israel’s army has killed a minimum of 67,000 individuals in Gaza based on native well being authorities, with hundreds extra feared lifeless beneath the rubble.