Hamas also released the body of 84-year-old Oded Lifshitz on Thursday in a grisly ceremony that saw four black caskets placed on a stage against a backdrop of slogans which said that Israel had killed Shiri Bibas and her sons using “USA bombs.”

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the scenes in a post on X late Thursday. “Under international law, any handover of the remains of the deceased must comply with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading…