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Widespread devastation in a conflict zone complicates recovery of human remains.

Palestinian militants released the remains of 17 hostages that had been held in Gaza for about two years, as of 2025-11-01.

The total number of Palestinian bodies returned by Israel since the ceasefire began was reported as 225, with 75 of those identified by families, as of 2025-11-01.

Violence in Nigeria is driven by multiple motives, including religiously motivated attacks targeting both Christians and Muslims, clashes between farmers and herders over resource competition, communal rivalries, secessionist movements, and ethnic conflicts.

Violent attacks in Nigeria have multiple motives, including religiously motivated attacks against both Christians and Muslims, farmer-herder clashes over dwindling resources, communal rivalries, secessionist movements, and ethnic clashes.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) originated from the Janjaweed militia that operated in Darfur during the early 2000s.

By 2025, the United States government, United Nations experts, and the Sudanese army had asserted that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied ethnic-Arab militias were committing genocide targeting African ethnic groups in Darfur.

By October 2025, roughly two and a half years of armed conflict in Sudan had resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and approximately 14 million people displaced, a situation the United Nations described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

As of 2025, the international advocacy group Reporters Without Borders reported that more than 220 journalists and media workers had been killed in Gaza since the war started.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) can receive custody of and transport human remains during armed conflicts.

By 2025, two years of armed conflict in the Gaza Strip had leveled buildings and severely weakened institutions of law and order, reducing the capacity of local policing and governance.

State actors may provide arms, humanitarian aid, and intelligence (including drone intelligence) to non-state armed groups as a strategy to weaken an adversary, which can alter local power dynamics and the capacity of those groups.

As of 2025, the government of Israel controls the borders of the Gaza Strip and has imposed sustained restrictions on shipments of food, medicine, fuel, and gas into Gaza.

Hamas is a Palestinian militant group.

In 2025, the Gaza Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government, reported that more than 67,000 Palestinians had been killed during the conflict and stated that around half of the dead were women and children.

The Gaza Health Ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its casualty reporting, and United Nations agencies and many independent experts regard the ministry's figures as the most reliable estimates of wartime casualties.

Gaza's Health Ministry reported that more than 67,000 Palestinians had been killed in the fighting and that around half of those deaths were women and children, as reported on 2025-10-13.

Khan Yunis is a city located in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The ceasefire in Gaza that began on 2025-10-10 includes a requirement that Hamas return all remains of hostages in Gaza as soon as possible.

Delays in returning the remains of hostages can complicate efforts to proceed from an initial ceasefire to later phases such as disarmament and governance arrangements.

A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect on 2025-10-10.

As of 2025-10-09, Gaza health records reported that 67,194 people had been killed in Gaza, including more than 18,000 children.

As of 2025-10-07, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 67,160 Palestinian deaths and nearly 170,000 wounded in the war in Gaza; the ministry stated it does not differentiate between civilians and combatants and that more than half of the deaths were women and children, and the ministry is part of the Hamas-run government; the United Nations and many independent experts consider the ministry’s figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties.

A 2025 peace proposal by U.S. President Donald J. Trump envisions Israel withdrawing its troops from Gaza after Hamas disarms, the deployment of an international security force, placing Gaza under international governance, and oversight of that governance by Donald J. Trump and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.

By 2025, a growing number of experts, including experts commissioned by a United Nations body, have characterized Israel’s military offensive in Gaza as genocide, a characterization that Israel disputes.

By Oct. 7, 2025, reporting attributed that Israel's military offensive in Gaza had killed more than 67,000 people, displaced around 90% of the Gaza Strip's roughly 2,000,000 residents, and created a humanitarian crisis with experts saying Gaza City was experiencing famine.

The Darfur conflict lasted from 2003 to 2020.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a Sudanese rebel militia that has been accused of genocide.

The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel resulted in approximately 1,200 people killed and 251 people taken hostage.

The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack killed approximately 1,200 people and resulted in about 251 people being taken hostage.

Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel resulted in approximately 1,200 people killed and 251 people kidnapped.

The Israel–Hamas war began with Hamas's attack on October 7, 2023.

Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack included a large-scale mass hostage-taking of Israelis.

The 2023-10-07 attack on southern Israel resulted in hostages being taken by Palestinian militants and triggered the subsequent Israel-Hamas war.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces have been engaged in armed conflict since April 2023.

The ICRC has historically overseen exchanges of remains and has served as one of the few channels of communication between adversaries during active conflicts, including exchanges in conflicts involving Israel and armed groups in Gaza and Lebanon.

The World Health Organization monitors and verifies attacks on health care facilities and reports casualty figures resulting from such attacks in conflict-affected areas.