In a brief statement, the Qassam Brigades said: "As part of the Al-Aqsa Flood prisoner exchange deal, the Al-Quds Brigades and the Qassam Brigades will hand over the body of one of the occupation prisoners that was found in the middle of the Gaza Strip."
The statement indicated that the handover would take place at 4 pm Gaza time (13:00 GMT) on Tuesday.
If that body is handed over, the Palestinian factions will have handed over, since the start of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement on October 10, 20 living Israeli prisoners and the remains of 28 others, which is the full number of bodies they have, according to their announcements.
However, Israel claimed that one of the bodies it received did not belong to any of its prisoners, and that other remains were not new but were the remains of a prisoner whose body had previously been recovered.
Israel is conditioning the start of negotiations to launch the second phase of the agreement on receiving the remaining bodies of the prisoners, while Hamas asserts that it will take time to retrieve them due to the massive destruction in Gaza.
In contrast, there are 9,500 missing Palestinians killed by the Israeli army, whose bodies remain under the rubble of the Israeli war of extermination, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
More than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, including children and women, are held in Israeli prisons, where they suffer torture, starvation, and medical neglect. Many of them have been killed, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
The ceasefire agreement halted an Israeli genocidal war on Gaza that began on October 7, 2023, and left more than 69,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction estimated by the United Nations to cost about $70 billion.
