The office indicated that the body belonged to soldier Itai Hein of the Armored Corps.
On Tuesday evening, Netanyahu said: "Israel received, through the Red Cross, the coffin of a slain man who was handed over to the army and Shin Bet (General Security Service) forces inside the Gaza Strip."
Netanyahu added in a statement from his office: "From there, he will be transferred to Israel where he will be received in a military ceremony in the presence of the military rabbi."
The Qassam Brigades had said that they found the body of one of the occupation soldiers east of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood during ongoing search and excavation operations inside the Yellow Line, and said that arrangements were being made to hand it over to the occupation.
The Israeli army said in a brief statement published Tuesday evening: "According to information provided by the Red Cross, the coffin of one of the abductees was handed over to them, and they are on their way to one of our forces in the Gaza Strip."
He added via his account on the American company "X" platform: "The Israeli army requests that we act with sensitivity and wait for official verification of the identity of the kidnapped person who will be handed over."
The army continued: "Hamas must abide by the agreement and make every effort to bring back the dead hostages."
Since the agreement began on October 10, Hamas has released the 20 living Israeli prisoners and the bodies of 21 prisoners out of 28, while Tel Aviv previously claimed that one of the bodies received did not match any of its prisoners.
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, given 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, which has killed many of them, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
The ceasefire agreement halted an Israeli war of genocide on Gaza that left 68,872 Palestinian martyrs and 170,677 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
