Hamas said that Israel’s continued closure of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip will “delay recovery operations and the handover of bodies of Israeli hostages.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to keep the crossing closed until further notice “constitutes a blatant breach of the ceasefire agreement and a repudiation of the commitments he made before mediators and guarantor parties,” Hamas said in a press statement on Saturday (local time).

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Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early Saturday in a statement that it had received the body of the 10th deceased Israeli hostage held in Gaza from Hamas, apart from all the remaining 20 living hostages.

On Saturday evening, the IDF updated that it received the bodies of two mo

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