A Gaza Health Ministry official says Israel has turned over the bodies of 15 Palestinians just days after recovering the remains of the last Israeli hostage. The transfer on Thursday marks the last hostage-detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas. The return of all remaining hostages living or dead had been a key part of the first phase in the ceasefire that paused the war in October. A spokesperson at Gaza's health ministry says the bodies handed over Thursday were taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. It comes after Israel announced Monday it found and identified the remains of the last Israeli hostage at a cemetery in northern Gaza.

Israel's military says troops fired a mortar shell into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas. Health officials on Wednesday said at least 10 people were wounded, and the army said it was investigating. The military said the mortar was fired during an operation in the area of the "Yellow Line," which was drawn in the ceasefire agreement that divides the Israeli-held majority of Gaza from the rest of the territory. The military said the mortar had veered from its intended target, which it did not specify.

Israel says it has received remains handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross. They are believed to be of one of two dead hostages still in Gaza, an Israeli and a Thai national. Israel's government said Tuesday the remains had been taken for forensics testing. Palestinian media say they were found in Gaza's northern town of Beit Lahiya. Since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire began on Oct. 10, 20 living hostages and the remains of 26 others have already been returned to Israel.

Palestinian attackers have opened fire at a bus stop in Jerusalem during the morning rush hour, killing six people and wounding 12. An Israeli soldier and civilians shot and killed the two attackers, and police later arrested a third person. Monday's attack at a major intersection is the deadliest in Israel since October 2024. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited the scene, warned that Israel is "fighting a war on multiple fronts." The Israeli military is encircling Palestinian villages near Ramallah in response. Hamas hailed the attack as a "natural response" to Israeli actions. The war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians to date.

The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hot spots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas. U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says, "Attacks on this scale, with zero accountability, are a shameful indictment of international inaction and apathy." The Aid Worker Security Database says the number of killings rose from 293 in 2023 to 383 in 2024, including more than 180 in Gaza. Sudan was second to Gaza and the West Bank, with 60 aid workers losing their lives in 2024 during civil war. The United Nations is marking World Humanitarian Day on Tuesday.