The Red Cross is "concerned and unsatisfied" by the way Hamas hostage release operations have taken place, it told Reuters on Friday after Hamas failed to return the body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, placing a Gazan body in her place.

An Israeli security official says Hamas has handed to Red Cross the bodies of 4 Israelis who were held hostage in Gaza.

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At around the same time as the bodies of the hostages were handed over, a Red Cross convoy carrying dozens of released Palestinian prisoners left Israel's Ofer prison.

Hamas handed over four dead hostages to the Red Cross early Thursday in exchange for Israel's release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, days before the first phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will end.