Hello and welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service, and we're coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley.

The Israeli Prime Minister has accused Hamas of murdering two Israeli children in Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu also said the militants would pay for returning a body that was not

the children's mother, something Hamas blamed on a mix-up. It has said in the past couple of hours

that it's now handed over her body to the Red Cross. Israel has not yet confirmed that.

Israel says that its analysis of the remains of the two boys showed they had been murdered at the hands of Hamas,

while the group maintains they and their mother, whose name was Shiri Bibas, were killed early on in the war in an Israeli air strike.

Mr. Netanyahu said he would not rest until Hamas was destroyed.

Who kidnaps a little boy and a baby and murders them?

Monsters, that's who.

These Hamas monsters also cynically refused to bring back the boy's mother Shiri

and send the body of a Gazan woman instead in brazen violation of the agreement.

Today, the heaven shake. The entire civilized

world should condemn these horrific murders. The entire civilized world should join Israel in demanding

the immediate release of all the hostages. All of Israel is united in grief. And as the prime

minister of Israel, I vow that I will not rest until the

savages who executed our hostages are brought to justice. They do not deserve to walk this earth.

Nothing will stop me. Nothing.

Well, we tried to get a response from a current member of Hamas. We weren't able to do so.

We did, however, speak to Ahmed Yussef, who was a senior advisor to the former Hamas leader, Ismail Hanayi,

and is now in a camp for displaced people in Khan Yunis in Gaza. He said Hamas was investigating the Israeli claims

and that it hadn't intended to

disrupt the ceasefire agreement. I believe that nobody from Hamas side, I don't think they are

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