The Al-Quds Brigades said in a brief statement: "We found the body of one of the enemy prisoners during search and excavation operations in areas controlled by the Zionist army in the central Gaza Strip," without giving further details.
In recent days, intensive search operations have been carried out by members of the Al-Quds Brigades in the northern part of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, in coordination with teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross, with the aim of finding the body of a prisoner who was being held by the Brigades.
Search teams worked using heavy engineering equipment and machinery to reach the points where the body was likely to be found, amidst the destruction left by the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip.
Engineering teams and equipment from the Egyptian committee participated in the combing and technical support work, which contributed to expanding the scope of search operations and improving access to severely damaged areas.
About ten days ago, the Israeli occupation army received the remains of one of its prisoners from the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, through the International Committee of the Red Cross teams.
Since the first phase of the ceasefire agreement came into effect on October 10, Palestinian factions have handed over 20 living Israeli prisoners and the remains of 27 others out of 28, according to their announcements.
However, Israel claimed that one of the remains it received did not belong to any of its prisoners, and that another set of remains was not new but rather the remains of a prisoner whose remains had previously been recovered.
Israel is conditioning the start of negotiations to launch the second phase of the agreement on receiving the remaining remains of the prisoners, while Hamas has confirmed on more than one occasion that it will take time to extract them due to the massive destruction in Gaza.
In contrast, there are 9,500 missing Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation army, and their 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 occupation 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 genocide in the Gaza Strip that began on October 8, 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.
