Early on Thursday, Hamas handed over to the Red Cross the bodies of four hostages in a deal involving Israel’s release of multiple Palestinian prisoners. This exchange took place just days before the expiration of the initial phase of the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Israeli President Isaac Herzog confirmed the identification of the hostages as Tsachi Idan, Itzhak Elgarat, Ohad Yahalomi, and Shlomo Mantzur via his social media platform X. Noga Tornapolsky, reporting for France24, provides further details on this development.

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