Khalil Dawas was thought to have been recruited from Israeli jail but large parts of his story remain shrouded in mystery
On Tuesday 14 October, Hamas handed over four bodies to Israel as part of an exchange of the dead under the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire.
Israeli forensic experts soon confirmed the identities of three of the bodies, but they said that one did not belong to them. Hamas insisted that the fourth man was an Israeli soldier.
“It’s one of yours,” the Palestinian militant group is said to have replied.
In a way, they may both have been right.
