With the latest swap, Israel has sent back to Gaza a total of 345 Palestinian bodies since the exchanges started last month.

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Israel handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Wednesday, one day after Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli hostage as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire reached last month. The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed it helped transfer the bodies to Gaza.

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Hospital officials in Gaza said Wednesday that Israel had handed over 15 more Palestinian bodies, completing the latest swap of the ceasefire as the first phase of the agreement nears a conclusion. Officials at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis confirmed receiving the bodies Wednesday morning from the Red Cross and said Israel did not provide any information about their identities.

Only one out of eight planned aid movements coordinated with Israeli authorities was allowed into Gaza on Tuesday, the UN says.

Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported on November 26 that Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been “increasingly strengthening its military wing in Syria in recent weeks,” particularly around Palestinian refugee camps in Damascus.

The two-year Gaza war and economic restrictions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have triggered the worst collapse in the Palestinian economy on record, wiping out decades of growth, a United Nations report said on Tuesday.

Amnesty International has warned that Israel is "still committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza, despite the ceasefire.