Hamas said it would hand over a hostage body on Wednesday, after Israeli forensic services concluded that remains returned a day earlier were not from one of two final deceased hostages.

The handover of the last two hostages' bodies in Gaza would complete a key condition of the initial part of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the Gaza war.

Hamas said it would hand over the body at 5 p.m. local time (10 a.m. ET).

The armed wing of the Hamas-allied Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, the Al-Quds Brigades, said it had conducted a search in northern Gaza, along with a team from the Red Cross.

The group later said it found a body, but it did not say which of the two remaining deceased hostages it believed it to be.

The two are Israeli police officer Ran Gvili and Thai national Sud

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