Negotiations for the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal “will happen this week”, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says, after Israel gave mixed signals about its engagement. Hamas leader in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya says four Israeli captives’ bodies will be handed over in the war-torn enclave on Thursday and six living abductees on Saturday as part of the precarious ceasefire agreement with Israel.

The bodies of four Israelis taken captive by Hamas, including those said to be of the last female and child hostages in Gaza, were released Thursday, bringing to 28 the number of captives freed since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on Jan.

President Donald Trump alleged aid agency targeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu channeled cash to Hamas.

Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-New York, is sending his condolences after Hamas revealed it was turning over the bodies of a mother and two young children that the terror group killed. Langworthy visited Israel shortly after the October 7 attacks.

An Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas Palestinian militants recounted her ordeal at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, telling the 15-member body she did not think she would make it out alive,

Shiri Bibas, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists, while in captivity was not among the bodies returned to Israel and Hamas officials say it's the result of an Israeli air strike.

The remains were said to be of Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel, and Kfir, as well as Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was abducted.

The United Nations rights chief said on Thursday the parading of bodies in Gaza is abhorrent and flies in the face of international law. Hamas handed over the bodies of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Airel,

A Hamas official says Israel’s delay in the release of some 600 Palestinian prisoners is a “serious violation” of the Gaza ceasefire agreement , and that talks on a second phase of the accord are not possible until they are freed.

The initial phase of the ceasefire deal, launched on January 19, is due to end on Saturday with dozens of hostages having been released in return for hundreds of Palestinian detainees and convicts held by Israel.