The military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas announced this Sunday (2 November) that it will hand over to Israel, as part of the ceasefire agreement, three bodies of captured soldiers that it claims to have found this afternoon in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The delivery of the bodies, which Hamas said it found on the way to one of the tunnels in the south of the Palestinian enclave, will take place at 8 pm local time (6 pm in Lisbon).
Hamas will, as established by the ceasefire protocol in force since October 10, deliver the three coffins to the Red Cross, which will then hand them over to the Israeli Army.
Afterwards, The Israeli forensic medicine center will examine whether the three bodies correspond to some of the 11 dead hostages still in Gaza.
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which has been at war with Israel for two years, has already returned 17 of the 28 bodies of hostages still in Gaza and who should have been handed over to Israel at the beginning of the ceasefire.
Hamas has alleged difficulties in locating bodies in destroyed territory.
The ceasefire agreement included Hamas releasing 20 live hostages and handing over the bodies of 28 dead hostages.
Israel has already handed over to Palestine, as part of the ceasefire agreement, 225 bodies of Palestinians, many with signs of abuse and torture or charred.