Скачать или смотреть Scenes of destruction in Gaza City

(16 Oct 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 16 October 2025
1. Various wide shots of destroyed buildings, people moving amid rubble
STORYLINE:
Amid a fragile truce that paused the two-year war, Palestinians were awaiting a long-promised surge of aid into Gaza, and plans for an international force to deploy there were beginning to take shape.

Thursday's development brings the total of bodies of Palestinians handed over by Israel since the ceasefire deal to 120.

The remains have been transferred over the last three days, wrapped in body bags and numbered, none of them identified.

They were handed over through the Red Cross as part of the exchange for human remains of hostages, the international organization said.

Separately, Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine on Thursday identified the remains of two more hostages returned from Gaza, as officials and families warned Hamas to hand over the bodies of those still held.

Since Monday’s exchange, Hamas has returned 10 bodies, nine of which Israel’s military has identified as hostages.

Israel said there were 28 total in Gaza before the exchange.

In exchange for the release of the hostages, Israel freed around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees on Monday.

It was not immediately known if they were Palestinians who died in Israeli prisons or whose bodies were taken from Gaza by Israeli troops.

The Health Ministry in Gaza posted pictures of nearly half of the returned bodies so far, asking families to come forth if they recognize any of their relatives.

Some of the bodies were badly decomposed, missing limbs or teeth, and doctors said some of the returned bodies showed signs of abuse.

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