The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement: "Israel received, through the Red Cross, the coffin of a kidnapped (captive) who was handed over to the Israeli army and the Shin Bet security service inside Gaza, where he will be received with a military ceremony."
The statement added: "After that, the coffin will be transferred to Israel, to the National Center of Forensic Medicine of the Ministry of Health," and continued: "After the identity verification process is completed and based on the results, the family will be officially notified."
According to Hebrew media, as reported by the newspapers "Yedioth Ahronoth" and "Jerusalem Post," the expected remains are likely those of First Sergeant Ran Goeili, who is considered the last body of an Israeli prisoner still in Gaza.
But the Gueili family, according to Yediot Aharonot, said they had received indications that the remains that were recovered might not belong to their son, without revealing the nature of those indications.
In addition to the body of Gweili, Israel is still demanding the body of another captive, Thai worker Sontisk Rintalak, who arrived in Israel in 2017 with a group of friends to work in agriculture, before he was killed on a farm near the settlement of Be'eri, and his body is being held in Gaza, according to Hebrew media.
Earlier, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced they would hand over the body of an Israeli prisoner on Wednesday evening, after it was found in the northern Gaza Strip.
In a statement, the al-Qassam Brigades said, "As part of the al-Aqsa Flood prisoner exchange deal, the al-Quds Brigades and the al-Qassam Brigades will hand over the body of one of the occupation's prisoners, which was found today in the northern Gaza Strip." They indicated that the handover would take place at 5:00 PM Gaza time (3:00 PM GMT).
Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades stated that their fighters "found the body of one of the enemy's prisoners during search and excavation operations this morning in the northern Gaza Strip," noting that this was part of the "al-Aqsa Flood" prisoner exchange deal.
Israel has remained intransigent regarding the issue of the remaining remains of its prisoners, while there are 9,500 missing Palestinians killed by its army, whose bodies are still under the rubble of homes destroyed during the war of extermination, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
More than 9,300 Palestinian prisoners, including children and women, are held in its prisons, suffering torture, starvation, and medical neglect, which has led to the deaths of dozens of them, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights reports.
On Sunday, Hamas political bureau member Hossam Badran said in a televised interview that "the issue of the bodies is a pretext used by the Israeli occupation to avoid fulfilling its obligations, and in numbers, the resistance only has two bodies left, one of an Israeli and the other of a foreign worker."
With American support, Israel launched a wEZar of extermination in Gaza on October 8, 2023, leaving more than 70,000 martyrs and about 171,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women.
The ceasefire agreement was supposed to end the war, but Israel violates it daily, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinians.
Israel also prevents the entry of sufficient food and medicine into Gaza, where some of million Palestinians live in catastrophic, inhumane conditions
