Al-Qassam and the Red Cross begin examining the site of an Israeli soldier's body.

A joint team from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, began a field examination to determine the location of the body of an Israeli prisoner within what is known as the "yellow line" in the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza Strip.

This comes after the Palestinian resistance announced its success in retrieving the bodies of 7 Israeli prisoners from areas under the control of the Israeli army within the strip.

These field developments coincided with leaks reported by the Israeli website Walla from a security source stating that political and security entities in Israel informed the United States during closed meetings that Tel Aviv would not consider moving to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza before recovering all prisoners.

The website added that Israel is exerting pressure through Washington and intermediaries on Hamas to return the remaining bodies in its possession, but sources confirmed that there has been no progress or new information regarding them.

The source indicated that Israel's hands are tied at this stage, and that Washington is unlikely to allow a resumption of fighting to pressure Hamas, especially with the U.S. administration's desire to move to the second phase of the agreement.

Sources also clarified that the Israeli political leadership has not yet studied the scenarios prepared by the army in case the bodies are not returned.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the army received last Tuesday the remains of Israeli prisoner Doron Or, one of the three prisoners still in Gaza.

The remains were handed over as part of a ceasefire agreement mediated by the United States.

For his part, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem stated that the delivery of the body comes as part of "the movement's firm commitment to fully conclude the exchange process."

Qassem called on intermediaries to pressure Israel to adhere to the ceasefire and implement what was stipulated in the ceasefire agreement and to stop violations.

Sources within Hamas reported that its teams continue to search for the bodies of Israeli prisoners in Gaza in preparation for handing them over to the Israeli side through intermediaries.

In the southern part of the strip, the Israeli occupation army announced that it had eliminated 4 fighters who emerged from tunnels in the Rafah area, which is the region it withdrew to from inside Gaza following the ceasefire agreement last month.

This announcement came days after several sources confirmed the existence of negotiations regarding the fate of dozens of Hamas fighters trapped for weeks inside tunnels under Israeli control in Rafah.

The occupation army had announced last Friday that it found the bodies of 9 Palestinian fighters during operations to dismantle the tunnel network in the southern strip.

Hamas estimates the number of its fighters trapped inside the tunnels to be between 80 and 100 fighters.

Under the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on October 10, the Israeli army redeployed beyond the "yellow line," which gives it control over more than half of the strip's area.

Since the agreement came into effect after more than two years of the genocide war against the people of the Gaza Strip, Israel has been daily violating the agreement and launching attacks on various areas of the strip, while the residents suffer from a suffocating humanitarian crisis due to the extensive destruction caused by Israeli military operations.