Several people gathered in Kathmandu to commemorate Bipin Joshi, a Nepalese man killed during captivity by Hamas militants since 2023.

Joshi’s mother and sister are expected to arrive from the US in Nepal’s capital on Thursday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed the identity of the four dead hostages returned on Monday: Guy Illouz from Israel, Bipin Joshi from Nepal, Cpt. Daniel Peretz and Yossi Sharabi.

It said late Tuesday that the Red Cross handed the bodies over to Israeli forces inside Gaza.

The transfer comes a day after the bodies of four other dead hostages were returned to Israel.

It comes as the Israeli military said on Wednesday that one of the bodies handed over by Hamas the previous day as part of the ceasefire deal is not that of a hostage who was held in Gaza, adding to tensions over the fragile truce in the two-year war.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said it received 45 additional bodies of Palestinians from Israel, another step in implementation of the agreement.

The bodies of 90 Palestinians have now been transferred.

It was unclear whether the deceased had died in Israeli custody or were taken from Gaza by Israeli troops while searching for hostages.

In all, Israel has been awaiting the return of the bodies of 28 deceased hostages.

Israel released around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees on Monday.

AP video by Upendra Man Singh