Israel identifies the bodies of four dead hostages returned by Hamas

Israel identified the bodies of four deceased hostages who were returned by Hamas on Monday as part of the Gaza Gaza Fire Termination Agreement.

On Tuesday morning, the Israeli military pointed two of the hostages such as Guy Iluz, a 26-year-old Israeli, and Bipin Joshi, a Nepalese citizen who was 23 years old.

Later, the two other hostages were named by their families such as Jossi Shabi, a 53-year-old Israeli, and Daniel Perez, a 22-year-old, Israeli-South African national.

In the meantime, Israeli officials said the government would limit the entry into Gaza and delay the re -opening of Rafa’s border crossing with Egypt because of Hamas’s inability to hand over the bodies to 24 other dead hostages on Monday.

Israel’s Defense Minister said “any delay or deliberate avoidance will be considered a gross violation of the agreement and will respond to accordingly.”

Hamas said it could take time because not all hostage funeral sites are known.

The 20 remaining hostages were released from the Palestinian armed group on Monday in exchange for nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners and detained in Israeli prisons.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday morning that after forensic tests, representatives had informed the families of Guy Iluz, Bipin Joshi and two other hostages that they had been returned to Israel for funeral.

IDF said Illouz, a sound technician in the Israeli music industry from the central city of Rananana, was “wounded and abducted alive” by Hamas artillerymen after escaping from the attack of the Music Festival in Nova on October 7, 2023.

“Guy died of his wounds after not receiving appropriate medical treatment while holding Hamas captive,” he adds.

The hostage and missing families in Israel quoted the liberated hostage, Maya Regev, who says Ilus is “abducted unconscious and lies alone for a whole week, tied to his bed.”

“A day and a half before his death, she was brought into his room at the hospital, where he told her that his mother was the strongest woman in the world and that the moment he returned home, he would hug her and never let him go.”

Bipin Joshi was a farming student who was in Israel for only a few weeks when Kibbutz Alumim was attacked by Hamas artillerymen two years ago.

According to a forum for possession families, he “fled to a Kibbutz shelter with other foreign students, deflect a live grenade with bare handsAnd through his courage saved many lives. “

IDF said he had evaluated that Joshi was “killed in the first months of the war.”

On Tuesday evening, the hostage family forum said in a statement that he had embraced the families of Daniel Perez and Jossi Shabi after their “Return … to Israel yesterday for the right funeral”.

Jossi Shabi was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Beaeri on October 7 with her brother Eli, whose British-Israeli wife and two daughters were killed.

Last year, IDF said the investigation found that Jossi was probably killed when a building collapsed after an Israeli blow to another building nearby.

Eli was released from Hamas in February 2025 during the last fire termination transaction.

Daniel Perez, who emigrated from South Africa to Israel, when he was 13 years old and lived in the central city of Need Binomamin, was captain in the 7th armored brigade of IDF.

He was killed in an attack on a tank near Nasal Oz on October 7, and his body was taken to Gaza as a hostage, IDF said last year.

The final conclusions about the death of men will be determined after the criminal examinations have been competing, the Israeli military reported.

The hostage forum said that the return of their bodies “brings a certain measure of comfort to families who lived with agonizing uncertainty and doubt for more than two years.”

“We will not rest until all 24 hostages are brought home,” he added.

IDF expressed condolences to their families and promised to continue to make every effort to return the remains of the hostages in accordance with the fire termination agreement.

“Hamas is obliged to fulfill his part of the agreement and to make the necessary efforts to return all the hostages to their families and for a proper funeral,” she warned.

Later, Israeli officials told the Reuters news agency that the Israeli authorities had decided to preserve the border crossing of Rafa between Gaza and Egypt, closed and reduce the supplies of humanitarian assistance to the territory until all bodies were returned.

UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher told the BBC that Hamas should “take the bodies at home, as they promised”, but also that Israel had to keep the intersections in Gaza open so that “desperately” help could be provided.

Hamas has not yet issued a statement explaining the delay, but a senior Palestinian source told the BBC on Tuesday that the group’s negotiators were meeting with mediators in Egypt to try to solve the problem.

According to Hamas officials, some of the hostage bodies remain trapped under the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombing and destruction, and the group demanded the entry of heavy machines to help recover efforts.

A copy of the fire termination agreement published by the Israeli media last week is acknowledged that Hamas and other Palestinian groups may not be able to find all the bodies before the deadline of 12:00 local time (09:00) on Monday.

It established a mechanism between the two countries through the mediators and the Red Cross, which would allow them to exchange information and intelligence at the places of the remains of all deceased hostages who were not extracted before the deadline.

The Red Cross warned on Tuesday that demand could take days or weeks.

“The demand for human remains is obviously even more challenging to release living people,” spokesman Christian Cardon told reporters in Geneva.

“I think there is obviously the risk that it will take a lot more time. What we say to the parties is that this should be their primary priority,” he added.

Separately, the Nasser hospital in southern Gaza said it had received the remains of 45 dead Palestinians held by Israel on Tuesday.

There is no message from the Israeli authorities, but the fire termination deal is said to exchange the bodies of 15 Palestinians for each dead Israeli hostage.

Fears are increasing among the Palestinians that slowing back the hostage bodies can derail the truce.

The Teaser Abed, a well -known writer who chronicled the war from his tent in the southern town of Khan Einnis, described him as a “dangerous test”.

If the delay continues and Israel refused to move to the next phase of Donald Trump’s peace plan in Gaza, “the problem with corpses can become a fuse that lit a new circle of conflicts,” he warned.

The Palestinians also expressed concern about the ongoing deadly violence in gas.

On Tuesday, the medics and the first reacting said the Israeli drone fire killed five Palestinians as they went to check houses in the Gaza Gaza neighborhood in East Gaza.

Another person was killed in an Israeli blow east of Khan Enisis, they said.

IDF said he fired at suspects who were “identified, crossing the yellow line” – the draw inside the gas, which was agreed in the fire termination agreement – and approached his troops in a manner that poses a threat.

A Hamas spokesman has accused the Israeli military of breaching fire.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to an attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

Since then, at least 67,913 people have been killed by Israeli military operations in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the territory.