On 14 October 2025, Hamas handed over four bodies to Israel as part of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire. Israeli forensic experts confirmed the identities of three of the bodies, but said that one did not belong to them. Hamas insisted the fourth man was an Israeli soldier.
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The body, however, was that of Khalil Dawas, a Palestinian from Jericho suspected of working with Israeli forces.
Like most stories involving collaborators – riddled with questions that never find answers – the reason Dawas went from being detained by the Israelis to being believed to be cooperating with them remains a mystery.
The Guardian’s Lorenzo Tondo explains what we know about his story – which is a tangle of contradictions, grey zones, secrecy and betrayal.
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