A Red Cross vehicle transports the bodies of hostages who were held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack, after they were handed over by Hamas terrorists as part of a cease-fire and a hostage-prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, on Oct. 15, 2025. Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
Israel said on Oct. 15 that it received two additional hostage bodies from Hamas, hours after the terror group handed over a body that the Israeli military said was not identified by forensics as a hostage.
The Red Cross transferred the coffins carrying the remains from Gaza. Once they arrived in Israel, the remains were sent to a forensic lab in Tel Aviv. The military said in a statement that the identities of the bodies have not been verified.
