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NEI Academy.org. Well, with Hamas, yet to return all the hostage remains as part of this first

phase of the ceasefire deal, we turn now to Yusuf Manair. He's the head of the Palestine-Israel program

and senior fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C.

That's a nonprofit research group. Yusuf, welcome to the show. You heard Laila report there,

Hamas, say they don't know where all the bodies are. What should we understand about why they don't

know and if they'll be able to make good on the pledge to return all the remains?

Right. Thank you for having me. I mean, the first thing I would say is this was actually largely

expected in the agreement that was hammered out in Cairo prior to the peace summit the other

day where Donald Trump met with all these global leaders to declare an end to the war.

There was a detailed agreement about this part of the process that the Israelis came to, along with the

Palestinians and the mediators. And part of that agreement actually delineated what would happen

with regards to the remains

of Israeli captives that were still inside Gaza.

And the Palestinians made it very clear at that point that they're not in possession of all of these remains and that it will take some time.

So a mechanism was established to share information between the different parties, the Palestinians

on the ground, the mediators, and the Red Cross about what they know of these remains, where

they are, how they're trying to reach them. And that was agreed upon at that point. So what's

concerning now is that the Israelis seem to be acting as if this was a surprise

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