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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, welcomed on Wednesday U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, the office said.

Vance, along with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are in Israel for high-level meetings, as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues. Both sides have accused the other of violations. Israel has said Hamas is delaying return of some hostage remains, a claim Hamas has denied.

The vice president on Tuesday praised U.S. President Donald Trump for his efforts brokering that truce, saying also that the administration would continue pushing for Hamas to return each of the 13 remaining deceased hostages.

"It is a focus of everybody here to get those bodies back home to their families so that they can have a proper burial ... this is going to take a little bit of time," Vance said.

He added that "very bad things are going to happen" if Hamas doesn't respect the terms of the truce.

-ABC News' Somayeh Malekian, Jordana Miller and Kevin Shalvey

The second body of a hostage returned to the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday has been identified as Sgt. Maj. Tamir Adar.

Israeli officials said Adar was the deputy chief security coordinator and a member of the emergency squad at the Nir Oz kibbutz, who died on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, before his body was taken into Gaza.

Adar was 38 years old at the time of his death, according to the IDF. He is survived by his wife and two children, parents, two brothers and a sister.

-ABC News' Will Gretsky

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday that it had identified the body of a hostage returned by Hamas as 85-year-old Arie (Zalman) Zalmanovitz.

Another body was also identified, according to the IDF, but their name has not yet been released publicly.

The IDF said Zalmanovitz was abducted by Hamas while alive from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Israeli officials said he was killed in captivity on Nov. 17, 2023.

Zalmanovitz is survived by two sons and five grandchildren, according to the IDF.

-ABC News' Will Gretsky

A Hamas leadership delegation met with Turkey’s foreign and intelligence ministers in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday to communicate how they feel Israel is not maintaining their end of the fragile ceasefire currently in place on Tuesday.

The ceasefire, which went into effect on Oct. 10, included an agreement to increase the amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza and to open additional crossing points into Gaza.

Twelve days into the ceasefire, additional border crossing points have not opened. Aid organizations, like the World Food Program, are saying that while the amount of aid getting into Gaza has increased, it’s still not as much as is needed.

Israel has alleged that Hamas is violating the terms of the ceasefire because the remains of all of the dead hostages who were still being held in Gaza have not been returned to Israel yet. The Trump administration has pushed back on this claim, saying that Hamas is working to return the remains of hostages, some of which could be under rubble or their whereabouts are unknown.

Hamas said Israel is “stalling the implementation of the agreement through repeated violations in recent days, failing to open the Rafah Crossing for the travel of patients and the wounded and preventing the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.”