A tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been strained by outrage over Hamas’s alleged transfer of an unknown body to Israel in the place of Shiri Bibas, the Israeli mother who was kidnapped along with her two young children during Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Still, the office of Israel’s prime minister said in a statement Friday that Israel has received the list of the hostages due to be released Saturday, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement, and notified the families.

That statement comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed for Hamas to pay the “full price” for sending the wrong body, in a statement in Hebrew. In English, Netanyahu said he will not rest “until the savages who executed our hostages are brought to justice.”

Hamas claimed an “error or mix up in the bodies,” in a statement Friday and vowed “full commitment to all our obligations” in the ceasefire.

“We have received the occupation's [Israel's] allegations and claims from the mediators, and we will examine them with complete seriousness, and we will clearly announce the results,” added the group,........

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