Israel has previously cast doubt on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry, which the UN considers reliable.

It marks the last hostage-detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas carried out as part of the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire reached in October.

IDF soldiers overnight identified eight terrorists emerging from underground infrastructure in eastern Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, prompting an airstrike that killed at least three of them, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday.

Israel is marking the end of a painful chapter after the return of the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza.

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Franja de Gaza (AP) — Israel entregó los cuerpos de 15 palestinos el jueves, pocos días después de recuperar los restos del último rehén israelí, dijo un funcionario del Ministerio de Salud de Gaza.

Israel turned over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Thursday just days after recovering the remains of the last Israeli hostage, a Gaza Health Ministry official said.

Gaza’s government urged its more than 40,000 civil servants and security personnel to cooperate with the Palestinian technocratic body with U.S. oversight that is meant to exclude Hamas.

Israel agreed to return 15 Palestinian bodies for each hostage recovered, according to the ceasefire terms. It’s unclear if the bodies released Thursday were of Palestinian detainees who died in Israeli custody or bodies taken from Gaza by Israeli troops during the war.

Israeli forces raided areas around Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday as gunfire echoed in the air and smoke rose from the urban Al-Amari refugee camp.