DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The Red Cross on Friday received the remains of another hostage to be returned to Israel from Gaza, the Israeli miitary said, after Hamas worked to shore up a tenuous ceasefire by using bulldozers to help search for bodies the group says remain trapped under rubble.
The coffin of a deceased hostage was on the way to Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip, the military said. The handover came after Hamas’ military wing said it would hand over the body of a hostage pulled out earlier in the day to the International Committee of the Red Cross.