Israeli intelligence shared with US claims Hamas has access to more bodies, Axios reports

Adina and Shira Perez attend the funeral of their brother, Israeli soldier Daniel Shimon Perez, who was killed during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas and whose body was abducted and later returned to Israel as part of a prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Jerusalem, Oct. 15, 2025. (Reuters)
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Israeli intelligence shared with US claims Hamas has access to more bodies, Axios reports

  • Israel told the US Hamas was not doing enough to recover the bodies of dead Israeli hostages

WASHINGTON: Israeli intelligence shared with the US claimed that Hamas had access to more bodies than claimed by the Palestinian militant group, Axios reported on Wednesday.
Axios reported that Israel told the US Hamas was not doing enough to recover the bodies of dead Israeli hostages, and that the Gaza deal cannot move into the next phase until that changes. It cited two Israeli officials and one US official.


Jordan condemns US ambassador remarks on accepting Israel’s West Bank annexation

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Jordan condemns US ambassador remarks on accepting Israel’s West Bank annexation

  • The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it rejects the ambassador’s “absurd and provocative statements”

CAIRO: Jordan condemned Saturday earlier remarks by US envoy to Israel Mike Huckabee, who said it would be acceptable if Israel took control of the entire Middle East, including the West Bank.
Huckabee has suggested that he would not object if Israel were to take most of the Middle East. 
The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it rejects the ambassador’s “absurd and provocative statements,” in a statement published on Petra News Agency. 
Ministry spokesman Fouad Majali said the remarks “constitute a violation of diplomatic norms, an infringement on the sovereignty of the region's countries, a blatant breach of international law and the UN Charter.”
Majali also said they contradict diplomatic efforts by the United States and the declared position of US President Donald Trump in rejecting the annexation of the occupied West Bank. 
The spokesperson reaffirmed that the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip are occupied Palestinian territories under international law, and that ending Israel’s occupation is a must for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on all of the occupied Palestinian territory, based on the two-state solution.