The news that Israel had received the last of the Hamas hostages came while I was away on holiday. The body of Master Sgt Ran Gvili was retrieved from a cemetery over the Israel-imposed Yellow Line, but Hamas was able to give Israeli authorities details of how and where to find it.
And that's what I find extraordinary, not that Israel and Netanyahu (who is trying to take all the cedit for it) was able to get all 251 hostages back, but that Hamas was able to keep track of them all.
Bear in mind that almost all of the Gaza strip is a hellscape of rubble and collapsed buildings, subject, even now during the so-called ceasefire, to constant Israeli bombardment. How Hamas was able to keep the bodies, and to keep so many of them alive frankly, so that they could be returned to Israel, is nothing short of miraculous.
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