Hamas Returns 2 More Hostage Bodies, But Israel Believes They Can Access Many More

JERUSALEM (VINnews) —After one more body of a hostage was released on Friday night and successfully identified, 18 more bodies remain in captivity.

Hamas announced that they will release two more bodies for burial at 10 PM on Saturday. According to the terror group, the bodies were located in Gaza earlier on Saturday.

Israeli sources have said that Hamas definitely knows the locations of several more deceased hostages and can easily access them. It is estimated that at least eight more hostages could be released immediately, if the terror group chose to do so.

Hamas claims that Israel is responsible for the delay in releasing the remaining bodies, since it is not allowing heavy equipment in to enable them to remove rubble. In some cases they claim that Israel bombed the tunnels in which the bodies were kept, preventing them from getting to the bodies.

🚨Hams is in total panic mode. They keep publishing videos supposedly showing them searching for the bodies of hostages. But no one buys it. pic.twitter.com/jkRZpRBWdj

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) October 17, 2025

Video clips released by Hamas show them allegedly searching different tunnels to locate the bodies.