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The Palestinian group Hamas said Saturday that it is ready to recover the remains of all Israeli hostages inside the “yellow line” in Gaza, calling on mediators and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to provide the needed machinery to accelerate the process, Anadolu reports. The “yellow line” refers to the zone to which Israeli forces have withdrawn under the ceasefire agreement that took effect on Oct. 10. It is a non-physical partition that runs through the Gaza Strip, dividing the Palestinian territory in half, south of Gaza City and north of Khan Younis. In a statement, the group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said its teams “are ready to work on extracting the bodies of (Israeli) enemy […]
