Islamic Jihad and Hamas fighters stand next to a white body bag believed to contain the remains of an Israeli captive in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. AFP
Gaza's civil defence agency told AFP that an Israeli strike targeting a shelter camp near the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Yunis killed five people, including two children.
The hospital also reported five people, including two children aged eight and 10, were killed and another 32 were wounded.
It comes as a US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza remains fragile, with Israel repeatedly violating the ongoing truce since it came into effect on 10 October.
Israel announced Wednesday it had received the second-to-last captive remains found in Gaza from the Red Cross, which were being transported to the morgue for identification.
On Thursday, the Israeli army identified the body as that of a 43-year-old Thai agricultural worker, saying he was killed at the outset of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023 and that his remains had been held in the strip since then.
Under the first phase of the deal brokered by Washington, Hamas and Palestinian groups have handed over the last 20 living captives, and so far, the remains of 27 out of 28 deceased ones.
In exchange, Israel has released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including women and children, in its custody and returned the bodies of hundreds of dead Palestinians who bear horrifying signs of torture.
The last remaining deceased captives to be handed over is Israeli.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 70,000 Palestinians — most of them women and children — and injured more than 170,000 others, according to figures from the territory’s health ministry that the UN considers reliable.
Independent estimates put the true death toll far higher, at more than 100,000.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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