Israel reluctant to break ceasefire before release of 6 hostages on Saturday, 2nd phase in doubt

Israel reluctant to break ceasefire before release of 6 hostages on Saturday, 2nd phase in doubt

Following the announcement by the IDF and Israeli officials that the body of Shiri Bibas was not returned to Israel in the hostage remains released on Thursday, the government is now deciding how to proceed. 

Israeli officials were quick to denounce Hamas for returning the wrong body, calling it a breach of the ceasefire agreement. On Friday morning, Hamas released a statement acknowledging the error, claiming that members of the terror group who had been holding Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir, made a mistake while exhuming bodies from the rubble of a building where they had been held. 

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