Israel will respond after Hamas handed over human remains that did not belong to missing Israeli hostages, which Israel considers a violation of the Gaza ceasefire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.

Hamas said it was complying with the ceasefire and doing its best to locate hostage remains, but was hindered by a lack of equipment to identify bodies.

Netanyahu said human remains handed over by the militant group overnight belonged to a hostage whose body had already been recovered by Israeli forces earlier in the war, rather than one of the 13 hostages yet to be recovered.

He said he will convene his defence chiefs later on Tuesday to decide on "Israel's next steps" in response.

Netanyahu said remains handed over on Monday belonged to Ofir Tzarfati, an Israeli killed durin

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