Israel's security cabinet approved the decision not to return the body of deceased Palestinian security prisoner Walid Daqqa to his family, instead intending to use it as a bargaining chip in a future hostage-prisoner release deal with Hamas. Walid Daqqa, who was convicted of involvement in the 1986 kidnapping and murder of an IDF soldier, died in April. The state admitted the decision marked a policy shift of not withholding the return of the bodies of Israeli civilian terrorists for bargaining