After Hamas handover: Body identified as Thai

Middle East

After Hamas handover: Body identified as Thai

The Islamist Hamas has now handed over 27 dead hostages to Israel as part of the Gaza agreement. Accordingly, only the remains of one victim are now missing.

The body most recently handed over to Israel by the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas has been identified as that of a Thai citizen. The Israeli army announced early in the morning that it was Sudthisak Rinthalak. The worker was murdered on October 7, 2023 near the Kibbutz Beeri, his body was taken to the Gaza Strip and held there by the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad. At that time he was 42 years old.

After the handover of this body, there is now only one dead hostage left in the Gaza Strip. This is an Israeli police officer who was also killed on October 7, 2023 and whose body was then taken to the Gaza Strip. On October 13, Hamas released all remaining hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of the US-driven peace plan.

Sudthisak Rinthalak leaves behind his parents and a brother. Hamas and Islamic Jihad handed over the abductee’s remains to employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday, after which they were taken to Israel for identification.

However, contrary to what was agreed as part of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, the terrorist organization is only slowly handing over the bodies. She justifies this by saying that it is difficult for her to find the dead because they are buried under the rubble of bombed buildings and tunnels. Israel calls this a Hamas lie.

In the past, Hamas had handed over bodies that later turned out not to be hostages. Hamas is committed to fulfilling its part of the agreement and making the necessary efforts to return all hostages to their families and provide dignified burials, the army stressed.

The war was triggered by the Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 others were abducted to the Gaza Strip.