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After days of impasse, Hamas released the four bodies of Israeli hostages while waiting for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to be freed in return, in an overnight exchange marking the final swap as part of a fragile truce in Gaza.
France24 correspondent in Jerusalem Noga Tornapolsky reports that Egyptian mediators on Wednesday pressured and Israel received the coffins, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, in the early hours of Thursday.