Palestinians say bodies and detainees returned by Israel show signs of torture and abuse
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | As part of the latest ceasefire deal, Israel has released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners |
| 0:06.1 | and detainees and the bodies of nearly 200. |
| 0:09.9 | Many of the dead show what Palestinian officials and family members say are signs of torture |
| 0:14.5 | and abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | Special correspondent Leila Molana Allen and our NewsHour teams in Gaza and the West Bank spoke |
| 0:20.8 | with relatives of the |
| 0:21.9 | deceased and of those still held. And a warning, viewers may find some of these images disturbing. |
| 0:29.6 | The cruelest of reunions. These families are searching for signs of their loved ones in the decaying |
| 0:36.5 | remains returned to Gaza by Israel. Desperate for news of their loved ones in the decaying remains returned to Gaza by Israel. |
| 0:39.3 | Desperate for news of family members they haven't heard from since they were detained during the war. |
| 0:45.3 | So many are missing that few even know how or why they disappeared. |
| 0:49.3 | They hope against hope that they won't find their answers here. I've been coming for four days since the first group of corpses arrived. |
| 1:00.0 | I came to look for my missing brother. |
| 1:02.0 | His wife was killed as well as his four children. |
| 1:05.0 | His whole family has been wiped off the civil registry, |
| 1:08.0 | so I can't even ask them what clothes he was wearing |
| 1:11.0 | to identify him. |
| 1:12.3 | Israel has now returned 195 bodies as part of the ceasefire deal. |
| 1:17.7 | They are so badly decomposed that just a quarter have been identified. |
| 1:22.3 | A grisly and heart-rending job for the local forensics team. |
| 1:26.0 | With all Gaza's specialist labs destroyed by war, they must do the job by hand. |
| 1:31.3 | Doctors say many of the bodies bear signs of torture, abuse and execution. |
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