Oliver Conway

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This is significant for that family.

They now have that closure, that news, and his body is on its way back to his family for burial.

But this does have a wider significance.

There will be Israelis celebrating the fact, despite this is a dead body that is being returned, that the operation, the ambition to return all the hostage victims

dead or alive, to their families in Israel has now been completed.

And you get that message in the statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying this is an extraordinary achievement for Israel.

He said, we promise and I promised to bring everyone back and we brought everyone back to the very last one.

There will be questions about exactly how long this took, why it took so long, and why it's been so difficult to get all those hostages back, and why, in particular, Rangivili's body was the last remaining.

There seemed to be uncertainty about exactly where it was.

That's why the Israel Defence Force has said it was able to clarify some extra intelligence documents

and mounts a wider search of a specific area, and that's where they've made this discovery and been able to confirm that the remains are indeed those of Rang Kavili.

But this has a wider significance because it now opens up the possibility of the ceasefire negotiations, the ceasefire deal, moving into the next phase.

Dan Johnson.

Meanwhile, Israel's Supreme Court has heard an appeal from foreign journalists to be allowed unrestricted access to Gaza.

International reporters haven't been able to report freely from the territory for more than two years.

Our Middle East correspondent Yoland Nel was in court in Jerusalem.

Yolanda Nell in court in Jerusalem.

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