Trump hints at 'action' if Hamas doesn't return hostage bodies

Two more hostages whose bodies was returned to Israel on Monday have been identified. Yossi Sharabi and Daniel Peretz are the third and fourth remains to be ID'd, Kibbuz Be’eri and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in statements Tuesday.

Sharabi was “kidnapped alive,” on Oct. 7 and “murdered in captivity,” Kibbutz Be’eri said in a release announcing the identification.

“We miss our Yossi so deeply. He was a wonderful partner and a perfect father to Yuval, Ophir, and Oren. He was a kind-hearted man who always looked for ways to do good,” Nira Sharabi, his wife, said in the statements. “Now we can finally bring closure to the nightmare that began over two years ago and give Yossi the dignified and loving burial he deserves in the soil of Kibbutz Be'eri.”

Peretz, 22, was an Israel Defense Forces tank commander. He was stationed at Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Oct. 7, 2023. Peretz was wounded and kidnapped on Oct. 7, and after 163 days in captivity, he was declared a fallen IDF soldier, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters said.

All four deceased hostages whose bodies were returned to Israel on Monday have now been identified.

-ABC News' Dana Savir, Jordana Miller and Anna Burd

Forty-five bodies of Palestinians who were held by Israel for two years were returned to Gaza by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said Tuesday.

The bodies were handed over to the Gaza Ministry of Health at Nasser Medical Complex.

The Red Cross said they will provide names of the bodies at a later time, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

-ABC News' Sami Zyara

Israeli officials are in conversation with the mediators and the International Committee of the Red Cross about the return of the rest of the deceased hostages, a senior Israeli official told ABC News on Tuesday.

“The issue is also being addressed with other international parties and continues in our actions (the negotiating team) with the mediators, even at these very hours,” Israeli government liaison to hostage families Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch said in a statement. “I am in constant contact with our representatives in the talks and have been updated on the details, the issue is at the center of the agenda,” Hirsch said in the statement.

The bodies of four deceased hostages were returned to Israel on Monday; according to the terms of the first phase of the ceasefire deal, the bodies of all 28 deceased hostages were supposed to be returned to Israel.

Hostage families sent a letter to U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff urging him to “pull out every stop and leave no stone unturned in demanding that Hamas fulfill their end of the agreement and bring all the remaining hostages home.”

-ABC News’ Jordana Miller and Anna Burd

The International Committee of the Red Cross has provided an updated number of Palestinians who were released from Israel on Monday as part of the phase one ceasefire deal.

A total of 1,968 Palestinians were released: that includes 250 Palestinian prisoners, as well as 1,808 Palestinian detainees who were arrested after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel but were not involved in the Oct. 7 attack, the ICRC said.

-ABC News’ Ellie Kaufman