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Israel retrieved the bodies of six hostages from the Gaza Strip, the military said on Tuesday, as negotiations continued in an effort to bring back more than 100 captives who remain in the besieged Palestinian enclave.P)..
Most of them were seized by gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Hamas as they rampaged through communities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 Israelis and foreigners and abducting around 250 as hostages..
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met officials in Egypt on Tuesday during a regional trip aimed at bridging Israel-Hamas differences over a deal to end the fighting in Gaza and secure the return of the hostages..
Zahiro Shahar Mor, the nephew of hostage Abraham Munder, one of the six whose body was returned, said Israeli authorities had "torpedoed" opportunities to sign a ceasefire deal and bring the hostages back alive..
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the bodies of Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Abraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Chaim Peri were recovered by Israeli soldiers from tunnels under the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis after a "complex operation"..
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