Israel has received the remains of a deceased hostage held in the Gaza Strip that Palestinian militant group Hamas says are of an Israeli soldier killed in the territory more than a decade ago.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement the remains were handed over to Israeli forces in the Palestinian territory by the Red Cross.

There has not yet been formal identification.

Hamas' armed wing had said it would hand over the body of Hadar Goldin, a military officer killed in an ambush in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 Israel-Hamas war.

Hamas said that it found the body of Goldin 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 and Ham

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