A Red Cross vehicle arrives at the site where members of the Hamas militant group work on searching for bodies of the hostages in an area in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.
The international Red Cross has received the remains of another hostage to be returned to Israel from Gaza , the Israeli military said Friday.
The army added in a statement that the coffin of a deceased hostage was on the way to Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip.
The handover came after Hamas’s military wing said it would hand over the body of a hostage that was pulled out Friday to the ICRC.
The statement from the Qassam Brigades said the remains were that of an “occupation prisoner,” an allusion to an Israeli hostage.
Earlier, Hamas announced plans to hand over the remains of a ho