Hamas expands search for hostages’ bodies in Gaza as Egypt joins effort

CAIRO: Hamas expanded its search for the bodies of hostages in new areas in the Gaza Strip Sunday, the Palestinian group said, a day after Egypt deployed a team of experts and heavy equipment to help retrieve the bodies. Under the fragile US-brokered ceasefire, reached on Oct. 10, Hamas is expected to return all of the remains Israeli hostages as soon as possible. Israel agreed to give back 15 bodies of Palestinians for every body of a hostage. Thus far, Israel has sent back the bodies of 195 Palestinians.

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