The Israeli army handed over the bodies of Palestinians to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which transferred them to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Abdallah F.s. Alattar/Anadolu/Getty Images

Palestinian forensic experts are working to identify 120 bodies returned to Gaza by Israel marked only with numbers, some of whom were blindfolded, bound at the hands and feet, or bearing gunshot wounds.

Under the ceasefire agreement reached with Hamas last week, Israel agreed to transfer the bodies of what it called 360 “Gazan terrorists” into the enclave. Israel hasn’t provided any information about their identities or how they died.

It’s unclear whether the 120 individuals whose remains were returned this week died in Israel’s custody, in Gaza during the war, or wer

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