Egyptian teams and machinery keep working in Gaza searching for remains of hostages

Описание: (28 Oct 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hamad City, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 28 October 2025
1. Wide of Egyptian team among others searching at the entrance of a tunnel for the bodies of hostages that still remain in the Palestinian territory
2. Wide of militant entering a tunnel
3. Pan left of excavator inside a large hole, near the opening of tunnel entrance
4. Wide of excavator removing sand near opening of tunnel
5. Wide of tunnel entrance hole
6. Various of excavator at site
7. Wide of children looking at the excavator, tents in background
8. Various of machinery surrounded by sand
9. Various of excavators and machinery operating to remove sand from large hole
10. Various of top shots of excavators and machinery removing sand, while tents are seen in the background

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nuseirat, Gaza Strip - 28 October 2025
11. Various of machinery removing the rubble of a destroyed house in Nuseirat, as Egyptian teams continue working in Gaza to search for the bodies of hostages that still remain in the Palestinian territory
12. Various of militants securing the area where equipment and machinery are used to dig into the area where the bodies are thought to be
13. Various of bulldozer and truck at the site
14. Various top shots of excavator removing the rubble of a destroyed house
STORYLINE:
Egyptian teams were searching for the bodies of hostages that still remain in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as excavators were seen digging through sand in an effort to find some of the remains.

Militants were seen in the central and southern Gaza Strip where bulldozers and other equipment were used to dig at the area where the bodies are thought to be.

There are still 13 bodies of hostages in Gaza. Hamas said Tuesday it has recovered the body of a hostage that it plans to hand over this evening.

The slow return of hostages’ bodies is posing a challenge to implementing the next stages of the ceasefire, which will address even knottier issues, such as the disarmament of Hamas, the deployment of an international security force in Gaza and deciding who will govern the territory.

Hamas has said it is struggling to locate the bodies amid the vast destruction in Gaza, while Israel has accused the militant group of purposely delaying their return.

Over the weekend, Egypt deployed a team of experts and heavy equipment to help search for the bodies of the remaining hostages.

That work continued Tuesday in Khan Younis and Nuseirat.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that body parts returned by Hamas overnight were the partial remains of a hostage previously recovered in Gaza by Israeli troops almost two years ago, an announcement that threatened to rattle the tenuous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.

Netanyahu called the return a "clear violation" of the ceasefire agreement, which requires Hamas to return all Israeli hostage remains as soon as possible.

He said he will convene top security officials for an emergency discussion on Tuesday afternoon to weigh Israel’s response.

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