U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Hamas to act faster in returning the bodies of deceased hostages amid a delicate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal by withholding the bodies of the remaining 13 deceased hostages thought to have died during or after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
Hamas has said the return of the remaining bodies "may take some time" due to the destruction wrought in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday instructed the country's military to "carry out powerful strikes in Gaza," a statement from his office said, in response to alleged ceasefire violations by Hamas.
The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday they had resumed the ceasefire.
Coffin in IDF custody in Gaza, will be taken to Israel for identification
A coffin has been transferred to the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet forces inside of Gaza from the Red Cross, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said in a release on Monday.
The IDF will take the coffin to Israel where it will then be taken to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine for identification.
The Red Cross received the coffin from Hamas at the designated meeting point inside Gaza and then transferred it to IDF troops inside Gaza.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
Oct 27, 2025, 4:29 PM EDT
470,000 movements of people recorded to northern Gaza since ceasefire began, UN says
Since the ceasefire went into effect on Oct. 10, 470,000 movements of people have been recorded from southern Gaza to northern Gaza, according to the United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, U.N. Spokesperson for the Secretary General Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.
Palestinians collect a food ration box provided by the World Food Programme at a distribution centre in the village of Al-Zawayda, in the centre of the Gaza Strip, October 27, 2025.
Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images
"Families are trying to return to their destroyed homes, though many structures are unstable and unexploded ordnance poses a risk. Our partners tell us that water, food and essential services are still desperately needed," Dujarric said during his daily press briefing in New York on Monday.
Between Friday and Saturday, 300 trucks of aid were collected from the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom/Karem Abu Salem crossing, according to Dujarric.
"The aid in these trucks included thousands of pallets of wheat flour, supplies for hot meals, canned food as well as rice," he said.
Diapers, jerrycans, hundreds of pallets of health supplies including medical equipment and medicine, as well as tarps, tents and winter clothes also entered Gaza, Dujarric noted.
The U.N. Office for Project Services distributed about 329,000 liters of diesel on Sunday, Dujarric added.
More than one million hot meals were delivered as of Sunday, Dujarric said.
Dujarric added that 15 bakeries supported by the U.N. are now operating and producing "thousands" of loaves of bread in Deir al Balah, Khan Younis and Gaza City.
-ABC News' Ellie Kaufman
Oct 27, 2025, 2:15 PM EDT
Hostage body to be returned to Israel on Monday night
Hamas announced that the body of a hostage will be handed over to the Red Cross at 9 p.m. local time on Monday.
Two Israeli sources confirmed that the country is preparing to receive the remains of a hostage on Monday evening.
The bodies of 15 hostages have been returned to Israel since the start of the ceasefire on Oct. 10, with 13 bodies remaining in Gaza.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Nasser Atta
Oct 27, 2025, 12:37 PM EDT
International Committee of the Red Cross accompanies Hamas as search for hostage bodies continues in Gaza
The International Committee of the Red Cross accompanied Hamas, with permission from Israeli forces, to parts of Gaza past the yellow line on Sunday, the ICRC said. The humanitarian organization did this as Hamas continued their operations in looking for the remaining 13 bodies of hostages still being held in Gaza.
Palestinians watch machinery and some workers from Egypt searching for the bodies of hostages at Hamad City, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 26, 2025.
Jehad Alshrafi/AP
They accompanied Hamas to provide any needed technical guidance, an ICRC official said. ICRC staff were present at a search site in Gaza City on Monday for the same purpose, the official added.
The ICRC does not participate in searching for the deceased or in physical recovery of the remains, the organization said.
"Under international humanitarian law, it is the responsibility of the parties to search for, collect and retrieve human remains," the ICRC said in a statement.
