Tel Aviv : Hamas announced it will hand over on Sunday afternoon the body of an Israeli soldier who was killed in 2014 and been held in Gaza since then. His remains are the only ones held in Gaza since before the latest, two-year war between Israel and Hamas.

The return of the soldier, Hadar Goldin, would be a significant development in the US-brokered truce and close a painful, 11-year saga for his parents, who spearheaded a campaign, along with the family of another soldier whose body was taken in 2014, to bring their son home for burial.

According to the announcement, Hamas said it found Goldin’s body in a tunnel in the enclave’s southernmost city of Rafah on Saturday. Goldin was killed on August 1, 2014, two hours after a ceasefire took effect ending that year’s war between Israel a

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