Trump-Gaza latest: Israel accuse Hamas of breaching deal to return bodies of 28 hostages

US president Donald Trump has officially landed in Egypt where he will attend a ceasefire summit.

The summit, set to address Gaza’s future, is expected to see more than two dozen countries represented. Trump is hosting alongside Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited but declined, with his office saying it was too close to a Jewish holiday.

Israel’s military has said the Red Cross is on its way to a point in the southern Gaza Strip where several coffins of hostages are set to be handed over.

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned that an announcement by Palestinian militant group Hamas to hand over four bodies of Israeli hostages is a “failure to meet commitments”.

“Any delay or deliberate avoidance will be considered a gross violation of the agreement and will be responded to accordingly,” Katz said in a post on X.

The agreement says that within 72 hours of the military’s redeployment, all 48 hostages are to be released from the Gaza Strip and handed over to Israeli security forces – 20 who are known to be alive and 28 who have died.

Hamas previously indicated that recovering the bodies of some dead hostages may take longer, as not all burial sites are known.

The Palestinian health ministry for Gaza has said that 39 injured people have arrived at hospitals in Gaza, with a further 63 dead in the past 24 hours.

A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, with ambulance and civil defence teams unable to reach them yet.

The death toll has risen to 67,869 with 170,105 injured since October 7, 2023, the ministry said.

The return of just four of the 28 bodies of Israeli hostages to Gaza on Monday was a “failure to meet commitments”, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has said.

“The urgent mission to which we are all committed now is to ensure the return of all the abducted bodies home,” Mr Katz wrote.

“Hamas’s announcement about the expected return of 4 bodies today is a failure to meet commitments.

“Any delay or deliberate avoidance will be considered a gross violation of the agreement and will be responded to accordingly.”

It is not clear when the remaining 24 bodies will be sent back to Israel.

Donald Trump is leaving Israel for Egypt, where he will meet with world leaders including UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and and EU Council president Antonio Costa.

The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, will also attend the summit at Sharm El-Sheikh, where the leaders will discuss how to approach next steps in the Gaza ceasefire plan.

Donald Trump’s team were welcomed with rapturous applause at the Israeli Knesset on Monday.

Speaker Amir Ohana thanked the team for their work towards securing peace.

Ambassador Mike Huckabee was welcomed as “my dear friend and my absolute favourite rockstar”, and lawmakers chanted special envoy Steve Witkoff’s name.

This is the emotional moment the wife of an Israeli hostage called their daughters to tell them “daddy is back” after their father’s release from Gaza.

The last 20 living hostages being held were returned to Israel on Monday after more than two years in captivity.

Lishay Miran-Lavi, wife of Omri Miran, can be seen on a video call with her daughters Roni and Alma:

Donald Trump’s motorcade has arrived back at Ben Gurion Airport, where Air Force One will take him to Egypt to join the ‘peace summit’ of world leaders.

Trump is running around three hours behind schedule.