The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it had received the names of hostages whose bodies Hamas is set to hand over on Thursday.
“Israel has received the list of deceased hostages who are scheduled to be released tomorrow as part of the (Gaza truce) framework,” it said in a statement Wednesday, adding that it had “updated the families of the hostages through IDF (military) representatives.”
The IDF has already begun preparations for their return, though the Prime Minister’s Office has yet to publicly confirm the details.
The names of the hostages will be given to Israel on Thursday morning and the bodies will be transported to the Abu Kabir forensic institute by IDF ambulances.
Texts of the hostage-ceasefire deal that have been published to date indicated that human remains would only be returned after living hostages in phase one, suggesting that the arrangement is part of hitherto unpublished elements of the deal.
The full terms of the deal have never been officially released.
