Israel has identified the latest hostage body returned from Gaza as Israeli-Argentinian, Lior Rudaeff. Mr Rudaeff was killed while trying to protect his community in the Nir Yitzhak kibbutz, on October 7, 2023 during the brutal Hamas cross-border attack. Five deceased hostages are yet to be returned to Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.

Israel on Saturday returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, hospital officials in the strip said, a day after militants returned the remains of a hostage to Israel under the terms of the tenuous ceasefire agreement in the two-year war.

The Red Cross transferred the remains of a hostage to Israeli troops in Gaza on Friday, the military said, hours after hundreds of mourners flocked to the funeral of a soldier whose body was turned over earlier in the week by Palestinian militants.

An Israeli hostage who was released in October has told an Israeli television channel he was subjected to sexual violence during his two-year captivity in Gaza by Palestinian militants -- the first male hostage to publicly make such an accusation.

Hamas said it had found the body of a hostage who had been held by Palestinian militants in Shejaia, an eastern suburb of Gaza City in an area still occupied by Israeli forces.

Cooper's wife eulogizes him as a guy who wrote poems and whistled melodies, while Baruch's mother remembers her son as 'a traveler, chess player, kayaker, scholar, nerd'