Jerusalem, Oct. 14 -- The Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Israel has slammed the administration over its failure to retrieve the remains of the 24 hostages from Hamas, and declared that it will be holding an emergency meeting on the issue and discuss further steps, as per Israeli reports.

"An agreement must be upheld by both sides, its non-compliance and the failure of Hamas to return the hostages must be met with a halt to the continued implementation of the agreement by the Israeli government and the mediators," the forum remarked.

The forum slammed the government, and accused it of attempting to "erase its immediate responsibility for the return of the 24 (dead) hostages, after the return of 20 (living) hostages yesterday, will ...