Updates: Hamas hands over one more Israeli captive’s body

These were the updates on the ceasefire in Gaza for Friday, October 17.

Locals gather to watch as an excavator works at the site where members of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, are searching for the bodies of Israeli captives in an area in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, 17 October 2025. [Haitham Imad/EPA]

By Alastair McCready, Umut Uras, Urooba Jamal, Edna Mohamed and Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

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