The terrorist organization still hasn't fulfilled its part of the agreement to hand over all the murdered Israelis
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The terrorist group Hamas handed over, through the International Committee of the Red Cross, the coffins containing the remains of two Israeli citizens from Kibbutz Nir Oz: Arie "Zalman" Zalmanowicz, 85 years old, and Tamir Adar, 38. Both were kidnapped during the massacre on October 7, 2023, and murdered in Gaza.
The bodies were received by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after being collected by the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli soldiers inspected the coffins, covered them with national flags, and held a brief and solemn ceremony led by the army's chief rabbi, Brigadier General Eyal Krim, before transferring them to the Abu Kabir National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, where their identities were confirmed.
The delivered bodies
Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the communities most affected by the October 7 attack, bid farewell to Zalmanowicz as "a man of the land, of manual labor, and of the blue overalls." A pioneer and founder of the kibbutz, he was kidnapped from his own home by Hamas terrorists and died in captivity.
Meanwhile, Tamir Adar served as deputy security coordinator of the kibbutz and was killed while defending his community from the brutal assault.
The return of Zalmanowicz's and Adar's bodies took place one day after the handover of Tal Haimi's body, another Nir Yitzhak hostage who was murdered and kidnapped by Hamas.
With these returns, the number of deceased hostages whose remains are still held in Gaza drops from 15 to 13.
According to the ceasefire agreement in effect since October 10, Hamas committed to releasing all living hostages and handing over the bodies of the deceased, while Israel returns the bodies of Palestinian fighters killed in clashes.
According to the Red Cross, 15 Palestinian bodies were also transferred from Israel to Gaza, bringing the total delivered under the agreement to 165.
So far, Hamas has returned 15 bodies of Israeli hostages and the last 20 living hostages were released last week, within the 72-hour period following the Israeli withdrawal to the so-called "Yellow Line."
Among the deceased hostages still held by Hamas is Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier killed during the 2014 Gaza war, the last captive held since before the October 7 offensive.
Israel continues to demand the return of all hostages, alive or dead, and reaffirms its commitment not to abandon any of its citizens in the hands of a terrorist organization that for more than a year has held entire families hostage, defying the most basic norms of humanity.
