Hamas has handed over the remains of another deceased hostage, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The IDF confirmed in a social media post early Saturday local time that the "coffin of the deceased hostage" was brought into Israel and was being taken to Israel's National Institute for Forensic Medicine, where the body would be identified.

"The IDF urges the public to act with sensitivity and wait for official identification, which will first be communicated to the families of the deceased hostages," the IDF wrote.

In a previous social media post late Friday night, the IDF said that the Red Cross was "on its way to the meeting point in the southern Gaza Strip, where a coffin of a deceased hostage will be transferred into its custody."

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