Published On 4/11/2025
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Last update: 17:00 (Mecca time)
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it found today the body of one of the dead occupation soldiers east of the Shujaiya neighborhood during ongoing searches and excavations inside the Yellow Line, and said that procedures for handing it over to the occupation are being arranged.
A team from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Al-Qassam Brigades had resumed the search for the bodies of Israeli prisoners in the neighborhood for the third day in a row.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that mechanisms and equipment belonging to the Egyptian Technical Committee are accompanying the team in an attempt to reach the point where the bodies of Israeli prisoners are believed to be located.
A source participating in the team said that the operation is complex and difficult due to the great devastation in the region as a result of the Israeli war of extermination, which destroyed most parts of the Shujaiya neighborhood.
Yesterday, Monday, Israel announced the identification of the bodies of three military prisoners that it received on Sunday evening from the Hamas movement through the Red Cross, including Colonel Assaf Hamami, the highest-ranking officer captured by the Al-Qassam Brigades.
By receiving these three bodies, Israel will have received, since the beginning of the agreement, 18 bodies of prisoners out of 28, most of them Israelis, while Tel Aviv previously claimed that one of the bodies received did not match any of its prisoners. It also received from Hamas the twenty living Israeli prisoners.
The handover of the Israeli bodies came as part of the first phase of a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel that began on October 10, according to the plan of US President Donald Trump, whose country supported the Israeli war of annihilation in Gaza.
Israel is conditioning the start of negotiations to launch the second phase of the agreement on receiving the rest of the bodies of the prisoners, while the movement confirms that it will take time to extract them due to the massive destruction in Gaza.
On the other hand, there are 9,500 missing Palestinians who were killed by the Israeli army, and their bodies are still under the rubble of the destruction of the Israeli war of annihilation, according to the government media office in Gaza.
There are also more than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, including children and women, in Israeli prisons, suffering from torture, starvation, and medical neglect. Many of them were martyred, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
The Israeli war of annihilation on the Gaza Strip has been ongoing since October 7, 2023, despite the ceasefire agreement, as the occupation army committed about 200 violations of the agreement and, since October 10, has caused the death and injury of dozens of Palestinians, in addition to the blowing up and destruction of many residential buildings.
The Israeli genocidal war on Gaza left 68,865 Palestinian martyrs and 170,670 wounded, most of them children and women, with a reconstruction cost estimated by the United Nations at about 70 billion dollars.