The Israeli army said on Wednesday that one of the four authorities that Hamas handed over under the recent ceasefire agreement does not belong to Israeli hostages.
“After completing the rehearsals at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, the fourth body submitted by Israel Hamas does not correspond to any hostage,” the Israeli defensive forces said in a statement according to CNN.
“Hamas is required to make all the necessary efforts to return the deceased hostages,” they added.
There was no immediate word on which it was.
An Israeli agreement on a ceasefire
Hamas handed over four bodies on Tuesday to relieve the pressure on the ceasefire, after the first four on Monday, hours after the last 20 live hostages were released.
While the other three were identified as prisoners, Hamas is expected to return other remnants on Wednesday, the Israeli source of CNN said, but in Gaza there are several dead hostages.
Israel waited for the return of the bodies of 28 deceased hostages.
The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyah has previously demanded on Wednesday that Hamas would meet the requirements set out in an agreement on a ceasefire – introduced by US President Donald Trump – to return the hostage bodies.
“We will not compromise about it and we will not stop our efforts until we return the last deceased hostage until the last,” Netanyahu quoted Associated Press.
Plan a truce supported Trump
The trunte plan supported by the US demanded that all hostages-live and dead-to-date a deadline that expired on Monday.
But by agreement, if this did not happen, Hamas was supposed to share information about the deceased hostages and try to pass on everything as soon as possible.
Haz Kass, Hamas spokesman, said Messaging on Wednesday that the group was working to return the hostage body, as agreed in the ceasefire agreement.
He accused Israel of the fact that on Tuesday in Eastern Gaz and Southern Rafah, he disrupted the agreement with shooting on Tuesday in East Gaza.
Hamas returns the wrong body
It’s not the first time Hamas has returned the wrong body to Israel.
At the beginning of February 2025, during the previous ceasefire, Hamas said he had handed over the bodies of Shiri Bibas, the 32 -year -old Israeli mother kidnapped Nir Oz with her two young sons.
Forensic tests later revealed that the remains belonged to the Palestinian woman – not Bibas – Revelation of Israel condemned as a violation of the terms of the agreement.
Hamas returned the remnants of Shiri Bibas the following day.
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