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In exchange, the Gaza Health Ministry says it's received the bodies of 15 Palestinians held by Israel, but their names are not yet known.
The ministry says only about a third of the total number of Palestinian bodies returned under this ceasefire have been identified amid a shortage of DNA tests in Gaza.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The Israeli prime minister's office says forensic tests show the latest body returned to Israel is that of a retired Israeli military officer.
An Israeli hostage forum says Lior Rudeyev was a 61-year-old volunteer ambulance driver who was killed on October 7, 2023, after a fierce battle with Hamas-led militants at the gates of the kibbutz where he lived in southern Israel.
In exchange, the Gaza Health Ministry says it's received the bodies of 15 Palestinians held by Israel, but their names are not yet known.
The ministry says only about a third of the total number of Palestinian bodies returned under this ceasefire have been identified amid a shortage of DNA tests in Gaza.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The Israeli prime minister's office says forensic tests show the latest body returned to Israel is that of a retired Israeli military officer.
An Israeli hostage forum says Lior Rudeyev was a 61-year-old volunteer ambulance driver who was killed on October 7, 2023, after a fierce battle with Hamas-led militants at the gates of the kibbutz where he lived in southern Israel.
In exchange, the Gaza Health Ministry says it's received the bodies of 15 Palestinians held by Israel, but their names are not yet known.
The ministry says only about a third of the total number of Palestinian bodies returned under this ceasefire have been identified, amid a shortage of DNA tests in Gaza.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Hamas' armed wing says it recovered this body in eastern Gaza City and transferred it to the Red Cross overnight.
Forensic tests now show it's that of a Tanzanian agriculture student who'd been working at an Israeli kibbutz near Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli prime minister's office says he was killed in the attack that day by Hamas-led militants, who then took his body into Gaza.
Under the terms of this ceasefire, Israel releases the bodies of 15 Palestinians in exchange for each Israeli body that's returned.
But since this deceased hostage is not Israeli, there will be no reciprocal handover this time.
Six bodies remain to be transferred from Gaza, five Israelis and one foreigner.