The body of a deceased hostage in Gaza has been handed over to the Israeli military.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said that a coffin had been escorted by troops and crossed into Israel on Monday evening.
It was taken to the National Institute for Forensic Medicine, where the body will be identified, the IDF said.
If the identity of the deceased hostage is confirmed, it would mean that the remains of 12 hostages remain in Gaza with Palestinian militant group Hamas citing obstacles to locating them in the rubble left by the fighting.
Hamas' armed wing had earlier said it would hand over the body of a deceased hostage it recovered on Monday in Gaza.
The recovery and handover of bodies of deceased hostages in Gaza has been one of the obstacles to US President Donald Trump's Gaza plan.
The US-brokered peace plan brought the release of the remaining 20 living hostages that had been taken to Gaza following the October 7 attacks in 2023.
A fragile ceasefire has been in place, with Israel accusing Hamas of breaching the agreement as it had failed to release all bodies of hostages to their families.
An Israeli government spokesperson insisted on Sunday that the Palestinian militant group knew where the remaining bodies were.
Israel had allowed the entry of an Egyptian technical team to work with the Red Cross to locate the bodies on Sunday.
The team would use excavator machines and trucks for the search beyond the so-called yellow line in Gaza behind which Israeli troops have initially pulled back under Trump's plan.
Israel’s offensive in Gaza followed the October 2023 incursion by Hamas in which more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 251 taken hostage.
According to the Hamas-run health ministry in the territory, more than 68,000 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting since Israel invaded Gaza, which has now halted under a fragile US-brokered ceasefire.
