Hamas has handed over to the Red Cross a coffin containing what it says is the body of another deceased hostage, the Israeli military has said. The remains have been transferred to Israeli forces, who will take them to the National Centre of Foreign Medicine in Tel Aviv for identification.

IDF troops in the Gaza Strip have received a casket, with the apparent body of a dead hostage, from the Red Cross a short while ago. The casket had been collected by the Red Cross from Hamas in Gaza City. The IDF is set to inspect the casket before draping it in an Israeli flag and holding a short ceremony led by a military rabbi.

A coffin of a deceased hostage has been transferred from Hamas to Israel via the Red Cross, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Monday. The body will be taken from the Gaza Strip and received in a military ceremony with a military rabbi, Israeli Prime ...

The Israeli military says the remains will be transferred to its forces in Gaza, who will take them to Israel for identification.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel received the remains of another hostage from Gaza on Friday, the prime minister’s office said, a handover from Hamas as the group worked to shore up a ceasefire by using bulldozers in a search for bodies under the rubble in the war-scarred enclave.

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The remains will undergo formal identification in Israel, as the return of remaining deceased hostages under a ceasefire continues.

The government says the bodies were transferred by the Red Cross to Israeli forces in Gaza, who will take them to experts for identification.