Al-Quds Brigades: The file on the handover of bodies to Israel has been closed

“Abu Hamza,” spokesperson for the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said: “We in the Al-Quds Brigades have closed the file of Israeli captives after handing over the last body on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, as part of an honorable deal that resulted from a heroic battle fought with pride, dignity, and loyalty.”

According to the Shehab News Agency, Abu Hamza added: “We emphasized that enemy captives would not return except by a decision of the resistance or in coffins, and that some may never return. Together with the resistance factions, we reaffirm our commitment to all the provisions of the agreement stipulated for the first phase of the ceasefire deal and the end of the savage Zionist war aimed at destroying our people.”

He further said: “We call on the mediators and guarantors to pressure the enemy to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and to put an end to its repeated criminal violations.”

Earlier, an Al Jazeera correspondent reported that a team from the Red Cross and the Al-Qassam Brigades had resumed today their search for the body of the last Israeli captive in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip.

Under the ceasefire agreement brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, Hamas committed to releasing all 48 Israeli captives in Gaza, including 28 who had been killed, with the exception of one captive whose body the movement had not yet located.

According to a statement issued last Saturday by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he informed the family of Ron Gavili, the last Israeli captive whose remains are still in Gaza, that he is determined to recover his body. Gavili, 24, was a member of the special YASAM unit in the Negev region. He was killed more than two years ago during the events of October 7, 2023, and his body was transferred to the Gaza Strip.