Hamas releases bodies of hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch

Amiram was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7 attacks.

The IDF believes that he was murdered in captivity in February 2024.

A former economist turned poet, he was taken alongside his wife, Nurit, who was freed several weeks later.

His death was then confirmed publicly in June of that year.

Kibbutz Nir Oz said: "We will always remember Amiram as a man of people and words, a pioneer and a man of values, a man of initiative and ideas who loved the kibbutz and its people so much."

Sahar, meanwhile, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri but was killed during a failed IDF rescue mission in December 2023.

He was an engineering student at Ben-Gurion University and displayed astonishing heroism during the Hamas attacks.

As terrorists overran his kibbutz, he went back into his grandmother's burning house to fetch an inhaler for his brother, Idan, who was struggling to breathe due to the smoke.

Idan, though, was fatally shot as he escaped the house, as was their grandmother, Geula Bachar.

The men's remains will be examined at the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv to produce "final conclusions" on the circumstances of their deaths.

The 11 hostages remaining in Gaza have been named as Itay Chen, Oz Daniel, Meny Godard, Hadar Goldin, Ran Gvili, Asaf Hamami, Joshua Mollel, Omer Neutra, Dror Or, Sudthisak Rinthalak and Lior Rudaeff.