Eight hostages taken by the terrorist organization Hamas have died, Israel says. They were among 33 hostages scheduled to be released in the coming weeks.
Israel received information about the dead from Hamas.
Hamas still has about 90 hostages in Gaza, which it captured in its attack in October 2023. Before the latest announcement, Israel had estimated that about 35 of them had died.
The release of the hostages is part of the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire agreement. Israel began allowing Palestinians into northern Gaza on Monday morning for the first time since the first weeks of the war.
Sources: AP, Reuters