Israel, Red Cross and Gaza
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Israel handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Wednesday, one day after Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli hostage as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire reached last month. The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed it helped transfer the bodies to Gaza.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad transferred the remains -- which they identified as belonging to an Israeli hostage -- to the Red Cross.
The 15 bodies returned were in exchange for the remains of Israeli Dror Or. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Red Cross says it has transferred the unidentified remains of three people to Israel but an Israeli military official says they were still being examined and may not be those of missing hostages Palestinian kids look into a Red Cross vehicles carrying ...