Hamas staged a fake recovery of a hostage’s body in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli soldiers who observed the event; and also returned a coffin to Israel Monday that contained more remains of a previously recovered hostage.

The reports of gruesome efforts at deception came as Hamas continues to delay the return of 13 hostage bodies that have not yet been provided to Israel. Under the ceasefire deal, all 28 were to be returned.

The Israeli government says that Hamas knows where all of the remaining bodies are, and that it is pretending not to be able to find them in order to regain leverage in negotiations over disarming.

Nevertheless, Israel has allowed Egyptian teams to enter Gaza to assist with a search-and-recovery effort, and has also reportedly allowed Hamas to conduct such ef

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