Hamas announced plans to hand over the remains of an additional hostage late Friday, as the militants tried to shore up a tenuous ceasefire with Israel by bringing out bulldozers in Gaza to search for bodies they say remain trapped under rubble.

The Hamas armed wing, known as the Qassam Brigades, did not say whose remains would be handed over, only that they were pulled out earlier in the day, nor where they would be handed over.

The statement from the Qassam Brigades said the remains were that of an “occupation prisoner,” suggesting they belonged to an Israeli rather than one of the hostages of several other nationalities also taken by Hamas.

The Israeli military and Shin Bet security service, in a joint statement, said they received information that the Red Cross was on its way to a m

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