Turkey has deployed dozens of disaster relief experts to search for the remains of hostages still missing in Gaza, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Thursday to bring all captives' bodies home.

Under a ceasefire agreement spearheaded by US President Donald Trump, Hamas returned the last 20 surviving hostages to Israel, and said it had handed back all the bodies of deceased captives that it could access.

The ceasefire also saw the war, sparked by Hamas's unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, grind to a halt after two years of agony for the families of hostages, and bombardment and hunger in Gaza.

The remains of 19 hostages are still unaccounted for, with Hamas saying it would need specialist recovery equipment to retrieve them from the ruins of Gaza.

A Turkish defence ministry source on Thursday said that "there is already a team of 81 AFAD staff there", referring to Turkey's disaster relief agency, indicating that "one team will be in charge of seeking and finding the bodies".

At a state ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the October 7 attack, Netanyahu said Israel was "determined to secure the return of all........

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