Red Cross and Qassam teams ended their search in Shuja’iyya without finding Israeli prisoners, as Israeli forces continued lethal operations across Gaza despite the ceasefire.
A joint team from the Red Cross and the Al-Qassam Brigades concluded on Tuesday their operations in Gaza City’s Sheja’iyya neighborhood without locating the bodies of additional Israeli prisoners. Meanwhile, several Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in various areas of the Gaza Strip.
Images showed trucks and heavy excavation machinery entering the area for a second consecutive day as searches continued for the bodies of Israeli prisoners.
According to Israel’s Channel 12, Israeli forces also closed the Philadelphi Corridor in the southern Gaza Strip as part of these ongoing searches.
On Monday, Israeli authorities released the bodies of 45 Palestinians previously held in Israeli custody. The remains were transferred to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis for identification.
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that since the beginning of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has handed over the bodies of 270 Palestinians.
Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told Al-Jazeera that remnants of Israeli munitions continue to endanger civilians, describing unexploded ordnance as “time bombs.”
He added that civil defense teams urgently need heavy equipment to retrieve thousands of bodies still trapped beneath the rubble.
In a separate development, Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Israeli forces released five Palestinian prisoners via the Kerem Abu Salem crossing. The freed detainees were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah for medical evaluation.
Israel had previously released around 1,700 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza on October 13 under a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal brokered by Egypt, Qatar, and Türkiye, and sponsored by US President Donald Trump. The agreement, which took effect on October 10, outlines multiple stages.
Many of the released prisoners arrived in poor health, with several reporting severe torture, starvation, and abuse in Israeli detention.
Separately, three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources at Nasser Medical Complex. Four others, including three children, were injured by Israeli drone fire east of Gaza City.
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Israeli armored vehicles stationed east of the city opened fire, while the Al-Tuffah and Al-Sheja’iyya neighborhoods came under artillery bombardment. Additional shelling was reported in the northeastern areas of Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi camps.
The ceasefire agreement ended a two-year Israeli war of extermination in Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, and killed at least 68,865 Palestinians and wounded more than 170,670—most of them women and children. The United Nations has estimated reconstruction costs at around $70 billion.
(PC, AJA)
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