President Trump has warned Hamas that the terror group had better disarm in the Gaza Strip or face the consequences. Israel’s military, meanwhile, is pausing its pullback in some areas as Hamas delays in returning the bodies of hostages – a commitment, according to the peace agreement, that should have been completed by Monday.
President Trump cautioned, “We have told them we want disarm and they will disarm. And if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them. And it’ll happen quickly and perhaps violently. But they will disarm.”
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Israel has temporarily closed the Rafah Crossing into Gaza, accusing Hamas of breaking the agreement. It stipulated that all 48 hostages, alive and deceased, were to be returned by Hamas by noon on Monday, although Hamas said in advance that they couldn’t locate all of the deceased.
Every living hostage has returned to Israel. Overnight, Hamas turned over four more bodies to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Forensics determined one body was not that of a hostage, and was probably a Gaza Palestinian.
Only seven of the 28 presumed to be dead have been returned.
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Fabrizio Carboni, head of the Red Cross delegation to the U.S. and Canada, told CBN News’ Faith Nation how important it is for the families to receive the remains.
“It’s not just a point in a peace agreement, it’s something very important for the families, because if you don’t have the mortal remains and the body, you can’t grieve; and more importantly, you don’t know, and you stay in a situation of ambiguous loss, and it’s a permanent state of torture,” Carboni explained.
One of those still waiting is Ela Haimi. Her husband, Tal Haimi, was head of the rapid response security team at Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, less than three miles from the Gaza border.
Haimi went to fight the terrorists invading their kibbutz on October 7th, 2023, and was killed. His body was kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Ela heard the news two months later.
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Ela told reporters, “And after two months, (when) I was sure that Tal is alive and that he’s gonna come back soon, the Army officer called me and told me, ‘Ela, Tal is dead.’ And then, in one minute, I had to make a lot of hard decisions: Are we doing a funeral? Will he have a grave, or not? And I thought about the kids to give them the closure. So, we did a funeral and Tal has a grave, a temporary one.
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