Israel identifies latest hostage body, as families await five more

Israel identified on Saturday the latest hostage remains sent back from Gaza by Palestinian militants, leaving only five more bodies to be returned under the US-brokered truce that halted the two-year war. The Israeli military identified the body handed over on Friday as that of volunteer ambulance driver Lior Rudaeff, who was killed in the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack that triggered the Gaza war.

Five more bodies remain to be returned -- those of three Israelis and one Thai national seized in the October 7 attack, and that of Israeli officer Hadar Goldin, who died in combat in 2014 during a previous Gaza conflict.