Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to the Gaza Strip, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis say, in the latest step to fulfilling the terms of a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement.

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

Israel identified the returned body as that of Meny Godard, who was abducted from Kibbutz Be'eri in southern Israel.

His wife Ayelet was killed during the attack.

The armed wings of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said Godard's body was recovered in the south of the Gaza Strip.

The remains of 25 hostages have been returned to Israel since the ceasefire between Is

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