JAKARTA - The Hamas group again handed over the hostages' bodies in the Gaza Strip to Israel, which if confirmed would increase the number of bodies that had been disbursed according to the ceasefire agreement.
Israel has again received the bodies of other hostages in the Gaza Strip, the Prime Minister's Office said, after the Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over bodies found near Gaza City to the Red Cross.
Like the previous repatriation, the Red Cross received the bodies of hostages from Hamas in Gaza City to be handed over to Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) personnel.
The IDF will examine the coffin before wrapping it in Israeli flags and hold a brief ceremony led by a military hearse to be then taken to the Abu Kabir forensic agency in Tel Aviv to be identified as saying by The Time of Israel.
Officials said the identification process could last up to two days. The Hamas group previously did not include the identity of the hostages' bodies that were handed over.
If the body is confirmed to belong to a hostage, the total number of hostages' bodies returned will reach 22 people, while the other six are still in Gaza.
Israel and Hamas continue indirect negotiations mediated by Egypt, Qatar, the United States, and Turkey to resolve the situation in the Gaza Strip on October 6.
On October 9, the warring parties signed an agreement on the implementation of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan proposed by US President Donald Trump.
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The ceasefire took effect on October 10. On October 13, Hamas and other Palestinian groups released all 20 surviving hostages and handed over the bodies of four hostages who had died based on the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
The Israeli side expressed their frustration that Hamas had only returned four of the 28 bodies of the dead hostages. Later, Hamas handed over several more bodies to Israel.
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