Israel on Tuesday said it had received “findings” handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross, believed to include the remains of one of the two hostages still held in the territory — an Israeli and a Thai national.
Officials said the remains would be sent for forensic testing. Palestinian media reported they were recovered in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza. The remains of 26 hostages taken during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack have been returned since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire began on Oct. 10.
Israeli fire killed two Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday. Hospital officials at Nasser Hospital said a drone strike in Khan Younis killed videographer Momahed Wadi, who owned a drone photography company that previously filmed weddings and more recently documented the destruction in Gaza. Separately, Al-Awda Hospital said a man was shot dead near the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Israel’s military did not comment but has said such shootings often occur when militants approach or fire at its troops.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said more than 350 Palestinians have been killed across the territory since the ceasefire took effect, as both Hamas and Israel accuse each other of violating the truce. The Hamas-led attack on southern Israel in 2023 killed about 1,200 people, and more than 250 others were taken hostage. Almost all of them or their remains have been returned in various agreements. The ministry says Gaza’s death toll has surpassed 70,100. It is staffed by medical professionals and is considered broadly reliable by the international community.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians on Tuesday. The military said one suspect stabbed and lightly wounded two soldiers near a settlement in the central West Bank before being shot. Another was fatally shot in the southern West Bank after allegedly carrying out a car-ramming attack that wounded a soldier. The army said the man tried to flee when troops attempted to arrest him. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the two as an 18-year-old from north of Ramallah and a 17-year-old from Hebron.
Israel has intensified operations in the West Bank since the Gaza war began, saying it aims to dismantle militant networks. Palestinians say many of those killed have been stone-throwers, protesters or civilians. Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has also risen in recent weeks.
Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished the Nablus-area family home of Abdul Karim Sanoubar, a detained Palestinian accused of planting bombs on buses in central Israel in February. Thirteen surrounding homes were evacuated. Israel says such demolitions deter attacks, while critics call them collective punishment that inflames tensions. The military said the explosives in that planned attack never detonated and that the demolition was approved by legal authorities. Troops later moved to Aqabah town to demolish the home of another man accused of carrying out a shooting that killed one person.
Israel also launched more strikes in southern Lebanon on Tuesday amid ongoing tensions with Hezbollah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed calls for a demilitarized buffer zone along the Israel-Syria border while visiting soldiers wounded in Syria. Syrian officials said 13 people were killed Friday when Israeli forces opened fire during a raid on a village as residents confronted them.
Israel says its operations in Lebanon and Syria target militants, but critics say civilians — including women and children — are frequently among the dead. Pope Leo XIV, departing Lebanon on a visit to the Middle East, briefly urged peace and noted the continued violence in southern Lebanon.