Over 10,000 Palestinians remain imprisoned in Israel, where they endure torture, starvation, medical neglect - Anadolu Ajansı

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.

Day two of the large-scale Israeli anti-terrorist operation This is the second day that Israeli army forces have been operating in the Tubas region, today in the city of Aqaba, north of Tubas, Palestinian sources on the ground reported.

The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that military, police and intelligence forces searched more than 220 sites in the occupied West Bank in the previous 24 hours, as Israel launched what it called a major "counterterrorism operation" in the Palestinian territory.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad transferred the remains -- which they identified as belonging to an Israeli hostage -- to the Red Cross.