<p>President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, Massad Boulos, said that the issue of returning the bodies of Israeli hostages is a very important matter for the US President. In an interview with Al Arabiya, he added that Hamas must immediately hand over the bodies whose locations are known.</p><p>Boulos added that there are also deceased hostages whose locations are unknown. “It may take some time,” he said, “but the return of the bodies whose locations are known must not be delayed.”</p>

Israeli educator Rami Glikstein assaulted in Manhattan in an antisemitic attack. Israel’s Consul General blames global incitement and urges US leaders to condemn violence against Jews.

Growing assessment: Body transferred to Israel last night is not one of the 13 deceased hostages

IDF reservists report that Hamas operatives violated the ceasefire by staging the recovery of a murdered hostage’s body just moments before Red Cross representatives arrived.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for the terrorists released in the hostage deal to be arrested again due to Hamas failing to honor its obligations.

After masked activists disrupted his lecture and threatened his life, Professor Michael Ben-Gad reaffirmed his IDF service, saying he 'would have crawled over cut glass' to defend his people.

<p>Israel claims that Hamas knows how to locate the bodies of Col. Assaf Hamami and Lt. Hadar Goldin - and chooses not to return them.</p>

<p>The family of Ofir Tzarfati addressed the return of his remains by Hamas: "We went to sleep last night with anticipation and hope that another family would close an agonizing two-year circle and bring their loved one home for burial. But once again, deception has been inflicted upon our family as we try to heal. This morning we were shown video footage of our beloved son's remains being removed, buried, and handed over to the Red Cross - an abhorrent manipulation designed to sabotage the deal and abandon the effort to bring all the hostages home."</p><p>The family added, "This is the third time we have been forced to open Ofir's grave and rebury our son. The circle supposedly 'closed' back in December 2023, but it never truly closes. Since then, we have lived with a wound that constantly reopens, between memory and longing, between bereavement and mission."</p><p>"Our Ofir went to Nova to celebrate his birthday and never returned. We ask all the people of Israel not to forget the fallen, not to forget the hostages, and to continue supporting the families until their return and beyond -only then will we have a future. Only then can we continue to live in our country."</p>