DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Tuesday said it had received remains handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross. They were believed to be one of the two hostages still in the territory: an Israeli and a Thai national.
Israel’s government said the “findings” were taken for forensics testing. Palestinian media said they were discovered in Gaza’s northern town of Beit Lahiya.
The remains of 26 hostages taken in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war have already been returned since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire began on Oct. 10.
Palestinians killed in Gaza
Israeli fire killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, according to local hospitals.
An Israeli drone strike killed a videographer in the south, said officials at Nasser Hospital, which received the body.
Mahmoud Wadi was killed in Khan Younis, the hospital said. Wadi owned a drone photography company that once specialized in filming occasions like weddings. More recently, it posted footage of Gaza’s destruction.
Another man was shot dead near the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Al-Awda Hospital. A third was killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun, and a boy was killed by an artillery strike on a house east of Gaza City that also wounded 10 others, according to Al-Ahli Hospital.
The Israeli military said in a statement that troops operating in Gaza h …