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Hamas handed over what writes are the bodies of the four Israeli hostage from Gaza, in exchange for hundreds of Palestin prisoners.

Israel is testing the DNA confirmation that the remains of Shlomo Mansour, 86, Tsachi Idan, 50 and ITZIK elgarat, 69, and all Hamas took over in attacks 7. October 2023. Years.

Early Thursday, Israel began to play more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, with a dozen returned to the occupied West Bank and Gaza, where they met them from the julp.

It will be the final exchange of the first phase of the arrangement of tribute, which should end on Saturday.

Israel has yet to confirm the results of DNA tests performed on four bodies that return as part of the exchange.

The initial tests were expected to happen near the border of Israel-Gaz, and the Israeli media later reported that they were transported to the Forensic Laboratory in Tel Aviv.

It comes after the body of the Palestin woman from Gaza handed hamas to Israel instead of the body of Israeli Shiri Bibasa last Thursday, causing anger in Israel. Hamas said it was wrong identification, and later handed over the body to Israel that he confirmed Bibas.

Hamas handed the body privately, without a public ceremony, because Israel asked, as opposed to the previous exchanges.

Israel accused Hamas “degrading” teaching ceremony – and postponed the last weekend the edition of the prisoner for what was said the hostages of the hostages in manuals.

Before the edition on Wednesday, Hamas official told the AFP news agency that the return of four bodies would be held “without the presence of the public to prevent interest to find any excuse for delay or obstruction.”

Photos published by Reuters’ news agency showed a bus that believed that Palestinian prisoners from the west coast are late on Wednesday.

The bus carrying Palestinian prisoners later arrived at the checkpoint at Ramallah Cultural Palace, where a large crowd gathered to celebrate their release.

Later, dozens of Palestinian prisoners saw them go outside the bus in front of the hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Palestinian prisoners expected to be released include more than 400 Gazans that are detained by Israeli forces during the war and 50 prisoners who serve sentences in Israeli prisons.

Along with this prison in the west coast, Israel said earlier that the prisoners would be released from Ketziot prison in South Israel.

The Hamas Prisoners’ Office said the hospital in Gaza was preparing to receive released Palestinians.

Tsachi Idan, 50, took away Hamas Gunmen from his home in Nahalu oz. His oldest child, Maayan – who just filled 18 – was shot in the attack. In August, Tsichi’s wife Gali, she told us that the TV was that she had heard her husband’s report from her husband’s published hostages in November 2023. Years.

In a statement through hostage and missing family forum, Tsachi’s family said that “with great sadness” that they learned “our beloved Tsachi is no longer alive and that his body would be returned to Israel.”

ITZIK ELGARAT, 69, was kidnapped from NIR Oz, and was reportedly shot in the hand during the attack. His phone was found in Gaza after the attack.

Ohad Yahalomi, 50, was abducted from Nir Oz, together with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November of the fire.

In February 2025. years, Idf said he informed the family of Iraqi born Shlomo Mansour, 86, that Hamas 7. October 2023. And his body taken in Gaza.

The exchange is final before the current stage of the Cancel Agreement is completed on Saturday.

It remains unclear whether to arrive to extend or advance in phase two, which would expel the release of all remaining hostages in Gaza in exchange for more Palestin prisoners.

The phase negotiations were created for the beginning during one – but it is believed to be not yet started.

The edition of the batteries on Wednesday follows the days of the benchmark between Israel and Hamas – which intermediaries resolved on Tuesday.

Israel should have released more than 600 Palestinic prisoners on Saturday in exchange for six alive and four dead hostages that last week surrendered Hamas.

But Israel delayed the releaseIn protest of what was said, Hamass’s cruel treatment with Israeli hostages while they surrendered them.

Also on Wednesday, thousands of Israel lined the roads of the southern Israel For the funeral procession of three hostages that were killed in captivity In Gazi – Shiri Bibas and her two sons, Ariel and Kfir.

Israeli TV channels wore live food scenes and – after private funeral – public bend of cousins, with gathering crowds to look at large screens in Taokov Tel Aviv Square.

Kfir, at the age of nine months, from Kibbutz Nir Oz, was the youngest of 251 hostages to abolish in the attacks 20. October Hamas. His brother, Ariel, was only four.

Shiri Bibas and her children were buried in one suitcase next to his parents’ final resort, Yossi and Margita Silberman, who lived in the same kibuta and were killed on 7. October.

About 1,200 people were killed in total, and 251 people took the hostages. He lit the deadliest war in Gaza’s history, in which more than 48,000 people were killed, the Hammas-Run Ministry of Health.