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Hamas has handed over the remains of another dead captive to Israel, hours after an Israeli drone attack in southern Gaza killed two Palestinians amid a fragile ceasefire.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said on Monday that the Red Cross had taken custody of the coffin and was in the process of transporting it to the army\u2019s troops in Gaza.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Under the terms of a United States-brokered ceasefire that took effect on October 10, Hamas has undertaken to return the bodies of all the 28 deceased captives. The remains of 16 had been handed over as of Monday.<\/p>\n The 20 surviving captives were freed on October 13 as part of the truce.<\/p>\n The release of the latest body comes as the families of some of the captives called on the Israeli government to pause the ceasefire if Hamas fails to locate and hand over the bodies.<\/p>\n \u201cHamas knows exactly where every one of the deceased hostages is held,\u201d the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe families urge the government of Israel, the United States administration and the mediators not to advance to the next phase of the agreement until Hamas fulfils all of its obligations and returns every hostage to Israel,\u201d the association added.<\/p>\n The statement echoed the Israeli government\u2019s claim that Hamas knows where the remains are.<\/p>\n On Saturday, Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said there were \u201cchallenges\u201d in locating the captives\u2019 bodies because \u201cthe occupation has altered the terrain of Gaza\u201d.<\/p>\n He suggested that some of those who had buried the bodies had been killed during the war, while others had forgotten the burial locations.<\/p>\n The day after al-Hayya\u2019s comments, Israel permitted an Egyptian technical team to enter Gaza to help with the task of finding the bodies. The search involves the use of excavator machines and trucks.<\/p>\n Despite the ceasefire, an Israeli drone attack close to the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis killed at least two people on Monday, according to Nasser Hospital.<\/p>\n In total, eight Palestinians have been killed and another 13 injured in Israeli attacks across the enclave over the last 48 hours, Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health said on Monday. At least 68,527 people have died and 170,395 have been injured since Israel\u2019s war on Gaza began in October 2023, it added.<\/p>\n Speaking on board Air Force One on Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that Israel had not violated the truce through its strike against a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t view that as a violation of the ceasefire,\u201d he said, accusing the target of planning an attack on Israeli troops.\u201dThey have the right if there\u2019s an imminent threat to Israel, and all the mediators agree with that.\u201d<\/p>\n In the more than two weeks since the truce began, about 473,000 people have returned to northern Gaza, where they face widespread destruction of property and critical shortages of basic necessities like food and water, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n Younis al-Khatib, the head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, has warned that Gaza\u2019s population still faces the same desperate humanitarian emergency as it did before the truce.<\/p>\n \u201cRebuilding human beings is more difficult than rebuilding destroyed homes,\u201d he said during meetings with Norway\u2019s prime minister and foreign minister in Oslo, noting that residents would need mental health care for years to come.<\/p>\n The World Health Organization also warned that the number of Palestinians in Gaza who need mental health support had risen from about 485,000 to more than one million after two years of Israel\u2019s war.<\/p>\n Almost all the children in the enclave need such help, according to the UN children\u2019s agency, UNICEF, which has said that Gaza has been \u201cthe most dangerous place in the world to be a child\u201d over the last two years.<\/p>\n Tess Ingram, the group\u2019s spokesperson in Gaza, explained that this is because of the \u201csheer number of children who\u2019ve been killed and injured, displaced, separated from their families [or] who have lost a loved one\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cA classroom of children was killed every single day for two years in this conflict, and the scars of what the children have endured will last for many, many years to come,\u201d Ingram told Al Jazeera, speaking from the al-Mawasi area in the south.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hamas has handed over the remains of another dead captive to Israel, hours after an Israeli drone attack in southern Gaza killed two Palestinians amid a fragile ceasefire. 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