‘Gruesome process’: Trump Recognises Difficulty in Recovering Bodies of Gaza Captives
US President Donald Trump has spoken on the difficulty of retrieving the bodies of Israeli captives from destroyed areas in Gaza.
“It’s a gruesome process. I almost hate to talk about it so. But they’re digging. They are actually digging,” Trump told reporters in the White House.
“There are areas where they are digging, and they are finding a lot of bodies. Then they have to separate the bodies. You wouldn’t believe this. And some of those bodies have been in there a long time. And some of them are under rubble. They have to remove rubble,” Trump said.
“Some are in tunnels, that died in tunnels, that are way down under the earth. And the tunnels are like three feet. Can you believe it, three feet high? They lived like this for a long period of time. It’s a horrible atrocity,” he said.
Safe Zones
Meanwhile, Hamas says it has handed over all hostage bodies it can access.
This was after the bodies of four more hostages were returned to Israeli soil late Wednesday, bringing to eight, the bodies that Hamas had ended over to the Red Cross for onward handover to Israeli forces inside Gaza Strip.
