President Donald Trump argued that Hamas deserved "a lot of credit" for digging up the dead bodies of their victims.
During the first Board of Peace meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Trump noted that "every last remaining hostage, both living and dead, has been returned back home" from Gaza.
"And we did hundreds of hostages," he remarked. "I said the last 20 are gonna be very tough, very, very tough."
"And we got them back. We got the living back," Trump continued. "And then we only got about 16 of the dead. And we said, well, you got to get them all. You promised them all."
"And they dug and dug and dug. You can imagine it's a job that's brutal. And Hamas really did a lot of that work. And you've got to give them credit for that. They brought the last one home a week ago. And we got all 28 of them."
According to Drop Site News, "some 10,000 Palestinians are still missing, buried under the rubble, and another 10,000 Palestinian captives are detained in Israeli torture prisons and military sites."