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(NewsNation) — Israel has identified the remains of three deceased hostages handed implicit by Hamas overnight, but its subject said 1 assemblage released does not beryllium to the hostage promised.
Hamas transferred 4 bodies from the Red Cross to the Israeli Defense Forces overnight, and examinations from Israel's National Institute of Forensic Medicine recovered nary lucifer betwixt the 4th idiosyncratic and a database of hostages, the subject said.
At slightest 20 deceased hostages person not yet been handed implicit by Hamas, according to IDF counts.
The archetypal model of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire required Hamas to instrumentality each 28 deceased hostages Monday.
Hamas released the bodies Tuesday aft Israel threatened to chopped assistance to Gaza and President Donald Trump warned the radical must disarm oregon look consequences.
The Israeli premier minister's bureau slammed the slow-walking of the instrumentality process: "We volition not compromise connected this and we volition spare nary effort until we instrumentality each of the hostages, until the past one."
Trump: Gaza ceasefire volition hold, Hamas volition demilitarize
Trump has insisted the fragile woody volition property guardant to Phase 2, which deals with rebuilding Gaza, determining who volition govern it, and the disarmament of Hamas.
While determination are questions astir however a demilitarization would hap — whether diplomatically oregon by unit — Trump made it wide helium volition not instrumentality nary for an answer.
“They’re going to disarm, due to the fact that they said they were going to disarm,” Trump said. “And if they don’t disarm, we volition disarm them.”
Trump aboriginal said helium did not relay that straight to Hamas, but done "my people, astatine the highest levels.”
“They cognize I’m not playing games,” helium added.
The White House is holding connected to hopes of expanding the Abraham Accords, a first-term effort from Trump to grow diplomatic ties betwixt Israel and different territories successful the region, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
