US President Donald Trump has just posted on his Truth Social platform.

"ALL TWENTY HOSTAGES ARE BACK AND FEELING AS GOOD AS CAN BE EXPECTED," the post says.

"A big burden has been lifted, but the job IS NOT DONE. THE DEAD HAVE NOT BEEN RETURNED, AS PROMISED!" he adds.

So far, four of the 28 deceased hostages have been returned to Israel. The son of a hostage whose body is still in Gaza told the BBC earlier that the US and others involved in the ceasefire deal needed to "show Hamas that this is not acceptable".

"Phase Two begins right NOW!!!" Trump adds, referring to the next stage of negotiations.

There are likely to be multiple points of contention during the negotiations over later phases of the deal, including over calls for Hamas to lay down its weapons - a possibility the group is reported to have dismissed.

And now they returned the body of someone who is not a hostage.

HamASS is looking to get bombed to dust here.

Israel already bombed the hostage bodies to dust. You want them to be finer dust?

I'm amazed that Hamas managed to keep 20 of them alive....

@Larr Pullo

Never understood that. It seems fishy.

@WI_cricfan

It's cute that you think it's Hamas that's getting bombed.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would consider allowing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume military action in Gaza if Hamas refuses to uphold its end of the ceasefire deal, telling CNN that Israeli forces could return to the streets “as soon as I say the word.”

@WI_cricfan

Nonsense!

If you stop swallowing the American kool-aid, and watch some proper news, you'd have learnt that the peace negotiators are well aware that Hamas is going to have difficulty locating the bodies of the remaining hostages, simply because Israel's genocide has resulted in Gaza's infrastructure being bombed to smithereens. In fact, the negotiators were informed that it could take weeks to locate some of the remains. Trump and Netanyahu know this well enough, but they're both being dishonest, as usual.

In addition, a family autopsy on one of the returned eight hostages showed that he was most likely killed by Israeli bombing.

Furthermore, half of Gaza is still under the control of the Israeli genocidaires, and it's likely some of the Israeli hostage bodies are in that part of Gaza. Instead of cooperating with Hamas, they're hindering them in their attempts at locating these bodies in these areas, and using that as an excuse to cut the number of aid trucks going into Gaza from a required 600 a day, to a mere 300 a day, which is not enough, and continues to prolong the famine.

So far, the Israeli genocide has resulted in at least 460 Palestinians dying from malnutrition, of which a third of that number were children.

And since this so-called ceasefire has come into effect, Israeli forces have shot and killed at least 29 Palestinians, including women and children. What kind of idiot "ceasefire" allows those accused of genocide to continue to police the area, killing civilians at will?

Netanyahu belongs in the Hague.

@mikesiva

Shabbat Shalom

I have one question for you. Did Hamas return all the dead bodies?

Once you answer this I may have others

Israel carried out several strikes on Gaza Sunday after saying its troops came under fire from militants in a “blatant” violation of the ceasefire, the first major test of the US-brokered truce.

An Israeli military official said Hamas attacked Israeli forces in Rafah with rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire, prompting Israel to carry out strikes in the area.