Israel receives the bodies of two hostages after accusing Hamas of violating the peace agreement and bombing the Gaza Strip

Since the ceasefire came into effect, Israel has received the bodies of 15 hostages of the 28 deceased that remained in the hands of the terrorist group in Gaza.

The last delivery, last Monday, of the remains of a hostage whose body was recovered in 2023 by the Israeli Army led to the Netanyahu government to accuse terrorist group of “violating” ceasefire agreement and partly motivated, along with an ambush on Israeli troops in Rafah, the resumption of attacks in the Strip.

Las Brigadas Al Qasam, the armed wing of Hamas, said they recovered the bodies of two Israeli hostages on Tuesday, Amiram Cooper and Saher Baruchhaving announced hours before that they would return one of the bodies.

However, in light of the Israeli bombing of Gaza that took place from late afternoon to early Wednesday, the militia postponed its handover.

The group He searched for Cooper for 13 days in a tunnel in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, until finally finding his body.

He died at the age of 85 during his captivity in Gaza and, while Israeli media such as Yedioth Ahronoth They say that he died when the tunnel in which he was being held collapsed due to bombing, others maintain that he was murdered by his captors.

The Saudi channel Al Hadath said on Tuesday that Al Qasam found a second body in the tunnel, although it did not detail whether it was Baruch’s.

Hamas has not specified, as it has been doing in recent deliveries, which two bodies it has returned this Thursday.

The Israeli Army, for its part, will take the recovered remains to the Abu Kabir National Institute of Forensic Medicine, in Yaffa (south of Tel Aviv), for identification.