Israel said on Saturday that the remains of a hostage returned from Gaza the previous night belong to an Israeli men who died while fighting Hamas in the militants' Oct. 7, 2023 attack that started the war.
The identification marked another step forward for the tenuous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire. The hostage body was identified as that of Lior Rudaeff, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's office.
