Israeli authorities have identified the remains of three bodies handed over by Hamas on Friday night as not belonging to any Israeli hostages, according to local media reports Saturday.

“We ruled out that the remains returned Friday evening are related to Israeli hostages,” Israeli news website Ynet quoted an Israeli official as saying, following examinations at the National Centre for Forensic Medicine.

The official noted that this did not constitute a violation of the agreement by Hamas, explaining, “We initially had already assessed that these remains were unlikely to belong to hostages. Still, we prefer that Hamas send any findings for verification.”

The website noted that according to the agreement reached between Israel, the mediators and Hamas, in cases of ambiguity, all the rema

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