Overview
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an urgent mission to Cairo to retrieve the final hostage’s remains.
- Hostage envoy Gal Hirsch led the delegation and met Egyptian and international mediators in the capital.
- Participants agreed to launch an “intensive and immediate effort” to fully conclude the hostages and missing persons file.
- Officials did not say whether the delegation had finished its work or was continuing discussions.
- The last hostage is Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, a 24-year-old police volunteer declared dead by an expert panel in January 2024 after his Oct. 7 abduction into Gaza.