Mourners walk near the car carrying the coffin of slain hostage Guy Illouz during his funeral procession in Rishon Lezion, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. Illouz remains were returned from Gaza to Israel as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday said that one of the four bodies handed over by Hamas the previous night did not match any of the hostages taken by the militants on October 7, 2023. The return of dead and alive hostages within a deadline is key to the fragile ceasefire agreement arrived at recently.

According to the IDF, three of the bodies have been identified as those of Eitan Levym, Uriel Baruch and Tamir Nimrodi at the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv. However, the remains

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