'Many' Hamas leaders who buried Israeli captives killed by Israel, says Israeli official

Israeli captive negotiator Gershon Baskin told CBS News on Wednesday that "many" of the Hamas leaders responsible for burying deceased Israeli captives had been killed by Israel, making it difficult to retrieve the bodies. 

"Many of the Hamas commanders who are responsible for burying these Israeli hostages are no longer alive," Baskin said. "They were killed by the Israelis."

He believed the current state of the Gaza Strip, which has been reduced to rubble by Israel's war on the enclave, and the landscape of unexploded bombs meant that "some of the deceased hostages may never be found".