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Hamas said on Thursday that it had handed over the remains of the Israeli hostages, including a baby, in a dark exchange that indicated progress according to the ceasefire agreement.

The Israeli army will take time to confirm the identities of the deceased, but Hamas said they were brothers, KFIR, an infant, and Ariel, 4 while they were eaten as a hostage – and their mother Sherry Pipas, 32, as well as 83 – Airk Activist Old Peace Oded Lifschitz.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that four funds of deceased hostages have been transferred to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza. Israel will issue hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in return as required in the ceasefire agreement.

Hamas has He pledged to release six live hostages Before the date set on Saturday, the hope that support negotiations will aim to convert the temporary ceasefire into a permanent truce. Dozens of hostages are still alive and death, in captivity in Gaza.

The arrest of the Bibas family – whose father was released on February 1 in the first phase of the bodies – became a particularly vivid demonstration of Hamas’s brutality in the October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel that raised The war in Gaza.

In a propaganda video released by Hamas, Sherry carried children in her arms while the armed fighters seized them from Nir Oz Kibbutz. Each place children are on Israeli posters demanding the release of the hostages.

Lifschitz and his 86 -year -old wife were also transferred from their homes near the Bibas family. YoCheved was released by Hamas only 16 days in the war.

The circumstances about the death of Pepas remain unconfirmed. Hamas claimed since late 2023 that they were killed in an Israeli air strike, without providing evidence.

The armed group conducted this confirmation on Thursday, and the bodies were handed over to the Red Cross under a sign that blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “Zionist warplanes and warplanes” for their death.

The IDF did not comment on the case, but a handful of families was informed that their loved ones may have been unintentionally killed because of their bombing in Gaza, according to interviews in the Israeli media.

Netanyahu said on Wednesday evening: “A vital day, a day of sadness,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday evening. “We bring four of our beloved, died.”

Gaza officials estimate that about 50,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, were killed by the Israeli attack, which destroyed most of the besieged pocket. About 1,200 people were killed in Israel in the Hamas raid across the border and about 250 people, according to Israeli officials.

On Thursday, the version was the first hostage and came in the fifth week of A. Six weeks ceasefire It agreed last month, according to which Israel launched 985 Palestinian prisoners for 19 Israeli hostages, according to the Red Cross.

The vast majority of Palestinians in Israel were detained without trial, while dozens were serving the penalty of life after being convicted of military prisons for killing the Israelis.

The Israeli army allowed thousands of trucks carrying humanitarian assistance in Gaza, including a small amount of heavy machines and mobile homes that start this week.

Negotiations between Israel and Hamas, which aims to secure a permanent truce in Cairo, continued by Egypt, Qatar and the United States. But the deal will require Israel to withdraw its army from Gaza and Hamas to release 60 hostages or so, and many of them are afraid.

Netanyahu’s ruling coalition depends on supporting a right -wing extremist political party that bitterly opposes the cease A pledge to resume the attack On Hamas.

The armed group seemed to threaten the hostages during the delivery of Thursday, and a sign showed: “The return of the war = the return of your prisoners in the coffins.”

It is known that Hamas had executed at least six prisoners last year after it was suspected of conducting an Israeli rescue operation in the tunnels in which they were reserved.

The Israeli Defense Army said at the time, there was no operation such as this operation and that it had fallen into the hostages who were recently killed in a regular patrol.