According to the Israeli military, Hamas handed over three coffins containing the bodies of dead Gaza hostages.
Israel received the coffin through the Red Cross in Gaza and transported it to Israel for official identification.
If the hostage is confirmed dead, it means that eight Israeli and foreign hostages remain in the Gaza Strip.
Under the first phase of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Israel that began last month, Hamas agreed to return 20 living hostages and 28 dead hostages it was holding.
Israel has accused Hamas of being too slow to return the dead hostages, and Hamas has said it is working to recover bodies trapped in the rubble in its territory.
The Hamas militant group’s al-Qassam Brigades said the body was found this morning along the route of one of its tunnels in southern Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official
Hamas and Israel have accused each other of violating the ceasefire agreement.
An Israeli airstrike killed a man in northern Gaza on Sunday, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
The Israeli military said it had attacked militants who were threatening its soldiers.
The first phase of the ceasefire saw the release of all living Israeli hostages on October 13 and the exchange of 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,718 Gaza detainees.
Israel handed over the bodies of 225 Palestinians in exchange for the bodies of 15 Israeli hostages and two foreign hostages, a Thai and a Nepalese, that Hamas had repatriated so far.
Of the 11 hostages remaining in Gaza before Sunday, nine were Israelis, one was Tanzanian and one was Thai.
All but one of the hostages still in Gaza were among the 251 people kidnapped when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and about 1,200 people were killed during that period.
Israel has launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 68,500 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
