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

Two of the surviving hostages who returned to Israel on Monday, Eitan Horn and Nimrod Cohen, have been released from the Tel Aviv Ichilov Medical Center, hospital officials said.

They mark the first of the 20 surviving hostages to be released from a hospital after returning to Israel on Monday.

Cohen, now 21, was a 19-year-old soldier when he was kidnapped, according to the BBC. Horn is a beloved youth leader who helped welcome newcomers to Israel, according to The Jerusalem Post.

-ABC News’ Dana Savir

President Donald Trump is threatening to "go in and kill" Hamas members in Gaza after Hamas-linked gunmen appeared to carry out a public execution in Gaza this week.

"If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump posted on Truth Social.

This comes after Hamas-linked gunmen appeared to carry out a public execution in Gaza on Monday, according to an eyewitness and video verified by ABC News. The video shows seven men blindfolded and kneeling at gunpoint as masked fighters were poised to shoot them in the head from behind. An edit from Reuters freezes the video at the moment shots are fired but the audio of gunshots continues.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar is accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal by withholding the bodies of the remaining 19 deceased hostages.

“We know for sure that Hamas can easily release a significant number of [deceased] hostages in accordance with the agreement,” Sa’ar said on Thursday. “What they are doing now is a fundamental violation of the agreement.”

Hamas has handed over the bodies of nine deceased hostages this week and released all 20 living hostages.

“We share our concerns with our American friends, and we expect the mediators to help resolve this problem immediately,” Sa’ar said. “This is very important, because it is about playing with the feelings of families who have suffered enough for more than two years.”

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum on Thursday also called on Hamas to “fulfill its obligations under the deal.”

-ABC News’ Dana Savir and Othon Leyva

Israeli officials identified on Thursday the remains of two hostages returned by Hamas the prior evening, saying they were Inbar Hayman, 27, and Muhammad Al-Atresh, 39.

Their families "were informed that their loved ones have been brought back to Israel for burial," Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, said in a statement on Thursday.

Hayman had been at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants attacked Israel, Shoshani said. She was killed and her body was taken into Gaza, he said.

"Our beloved Inbar has come home. To her parents, to her brother, to us," Hayman’s family said in a statement released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. "This is a feeling that cannot be described, joy mingled with profound sadness. Now Inbar will receive the rest and honor she so deeply deserves."

Al-Atresh was a sergeant major in the IDF’s Northern Gaza Brigade.

"He fell on the morning of Oct. 7, and his body was taken by Hamas," Shoshani said. "He leaves behind his parents, siblings, two wives, and 13 children."

The youngest of his children was born about two months before Al-Atresh was abducted, the Forum said. That organization and other groups have used alternative spellings for his surname, writing it as Al-Atrash, El-Atrash or al-Atarash.

"A serious man who always took care of his entire family," the Forum said, describing Al-Atresh. "Muhammad loved raising horses and dreamed of establishing a horse farm and a livestock area with sheep and goats."