Bodies of 15 Palestinians returned from Israeli detention to Gaza's Nasser Hospital

Описание: (14 Nov 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 14 November 2025
1. Various of trucks with Palestinian bodies at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
2. Forensic workers moving bodies from trucks to inside Nasser Hospital, putting body on a stretcher
3. Various of health workers moving bodies to inside hospital using stretchers or by carrying them
4. Various of body on a stretcher
5. Various of handwritten identification details on body bag
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Dheir, Director of Forensic Medicine at Nasser Hospital:
"Today, we received from the Israeli side, through the International Committee of the Red Cross, 15 bodies, bringing the total number received from the Israeli side to 330 bodies as of this moment. The 15 bodies are being checked now and photographed to extract evidence which will be given to the martyrs' relatives in the coming days."
7. Various of forensic workers carrying bodies to refrigerated trucks
STORYLINE:
Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Friday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said, in the latest step to fulfilling the terms of the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.

The bodies were returned after militants late Thursday handed over the body of one of the last four remaining Israeli hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza.

The remains of 25 hostages have been returned to Israel since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on Oct. 10. There are still three more in Gaza that need to be recovered and handed over. Hamas returned 20 living hostages to Israel on Oct. 13.

For each hostage returned, Israel has released the remains of 15 Palestinians, an exchange central to the ceasefire’s first phase.

Overall, the number of bodies of Palestinians received so far is 330, of which only 95 have been formally identified, according to Gaza Health Ministry officials.

Health officials in Gaza have said identifying the remains handed over by Israel is complicated by a lack of DNA testing kits.

The exchanges have gone ahead even as Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating other terms of the deal.

The next parts of the 20-point plan call for creating an international stabilization force, forming a technocratic Palestinian government and disarming Hamas.

The fragile agreement aims to wind down the war that was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.

Israel responded with a sweeping military offensive that has killed more than 69,100 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals, maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by independent experts.

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