Trump's marketing of transfer as solution for Gaza's distress misleads and absolves them of their crimes; Don't beautify reality: Masses of "uninvolved" there were deeply involved in massacre, kidnappings and war, rightfully earning their removal.

IDF and authorities gear up for emotional day as Hamas poised to return four dead captives Thursday. Although names made public, official confirmation of the fallen will only take place upon forensic tests in Israel. Two days later, six remaining living hostages of Phase 1 to return.

I had hoped I wouldn't have to publish this oped. But Hamas' evil toward the Bibas family left me no choice. We will win – for Shiri, for Ariel, for Kfir.

Look at the Gaza Strip today. From this destroyed place that knew only death and ruin emerged the pure bodies of Kfir and Ariel. Hamas kidnapped and murdered them along with our other dead. By what moral conception can one defend letting the murderers and their enablers remain in this cursed place?

Red-haired toddlers and their mother who were taken hostage from their home in Nir Oz had become a symbol of Hamas' evil. On Thursday, as part of the hostage deal, they will return to Israel after apparently being murdered in captivity.