Hamas hands over four more hostage bodies as 600 aid trucks to enter Gaza

Israel will allow Gaza’s key Rafah crossing to reopen on Wednesday for humanitarian aid.

HAMAS HAS HANDED over four more bodies of hostages to Israel, leading Israel to allow Gaza’s key Rafah crossing to reopen on Wednesday for humanitarian aid to reach the Palestinian territory.

“Six hundred trucks of humanitarian aid will be dispatched (Wednesday) to the Gaza Strip by the UN, approved international organisations, the private sector and donor countries,” Israeli public broadcaster KAN said on its website without citing sources.

The Israeli public broadcaster said the reopening of the southern Rafah crossing, decided by the “political echelon”, follows Hamas handing over the remains of four more hostages late Tuesday.

The Israeli military said the remains of the hostages has been returned a day after Hamas handed over the bodies of four other captives and released the last 20 surviving hostages.

In Gaza city, Hamas has launched a crackdown and executed alleged collaborators.

Hamas published a video on its official channel showing the street execution of eight blindfolded and kneeling suspects, branding them “collaborators and outlaws”.

The footage, apparently from Monday evening, emerged as armed clashes were underway between Hamas’s various security units and armed Palestinian clans in parts of the territory, on the fifth day of a US-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel.

In the north of the territory, as Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza City, the Hamas government’s black-masked armed police have resumed street patrols.

When busloads of prisoners freed from Israeli jails arrived in Gaza on Monday, fighters from Hamas’s Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades provided crowd control.

Meanwhile, a Hamas security unit has been conducting operations against armed clans and gangs, some alleged to have Israeli backing.

“Intense clashes broke out — and are still ongoing at the moment — as part of efforts to eliminate collaborators,” said witness Yahya, who asked not to be named in full for fear of retribution.