 "A girl walks near a camp for displaced Palestinians at a school-turned-shelter in Al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City on November 5, 2025.-AFP")
Turkey’s intelligence chief held talks with Hamas leadership on Wednesday to discuss the next steps in implementing the Gaza ceasefire, according to Turkish security sources.
Ibrahim Kalin, head of Turkey’s MIT intelligence agency, met with Khalil Al-Hayya, who leads Hamas’ negotiating team, in Istanbul. The discussions focused on measures to ensure the ceasefire proceeds smoothly and ways to address existing challenges in its implementation.
Hamas armed wing says to hand over Gaza hostage body
Hamas’s armed wing said it would hand over the remains of another hostage on Wednesday as required under the US-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel in Gaza.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades “will hand over the body of an Israeli prisoner found in the Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, at 9 PM Gaza time” (1900 GMT), the group said on its Telegram channel.
Of the 28 deceased hostages Hamas agreed to hand over to Israel under the deal, it has so far returned 21 – including 19 Israelis, one Thai national and one Nepali.
With inputs from agencies