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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.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Israel has returned these 15 Palestinian bodies in exchange for the remains of one deceased Israeli soldier.
Forensic tests identified him as Itay Chen, an Israeli-American who's believed to be the last U.S.
A statement from his parents calls the return of his body bittersweet and says they got a condolence call from President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
The Israeli military says Chen was killed in combat on October 7, 2023, his body then taken into Gaza by Hamas-led militants.
Less than a third of the Palestinian bodies returned in this ceasefire have been identified because of a lack of DNA kits in Gaza.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
In 1917, when the U.S. signed a treaty recognizing Denmark's claim to Greenland, Britain was involved, too, because Canada, Greenland's closest neighbor, was British back then. Tom Hoyam is a former Danish official and Greenland expert who says Britain made its own claim during those treaty talks that if Denmark ever sold Greenland... Then the United Kingdom had the first right to buy it or to...
In 1917, when the U.S. signed a treaty recognizing Denmark's claim to Greenland, Britain was involved, too, because Canada, Greenland's closest neighbor, was British back then. Tom Hoyam is a former Danish official and Greenland expert who says Britain made its own claim during those treaty talks that if Denmark ever sold Greenland... Then the United Kingdom had the first right to buy it or to...
Any British right of first refusal is not in the 1917 treaty, and the UK government tells NPR it has no plans to exercise it. But technically, if Trump wants to buy Greenland, he might have to ask Britain first. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.
Any British right of first refusal is not in the 1917 treaty, and the UK government tells NPR it has no plans to exercise it. But technically, if Trump wants to buy Greenland, he might have to ask Britain first. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.