Israel receives the remains of one of its prisoners from the Red Cross in Gaza.

Israel announced on Tuesday evening that it had received the remains of one of its captives from the Red Cross inside the Gaza Strip, and the remains will be transferred to the forensic center to verify the identity of the owner.

A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said: "Israel received, via the Red Cross, a coffin containing the remains of one of the abductees after it was handed over to the Israeli army and the Shin Bet (internal security service) inside Gaza."

It added that the remains will be received in Israel with military honors alongside a rabbi, before being transferred to the National Forensic Medicine Institute of the Ministry of Health to verify the identity of the captive, according to the same source.

The statement continued: "After the verification process of the identity of the remains is completed, his family will be officially notified."

Netanyahu's office concluded by stating: "Efforts to bring back our abductees are ongoing and will not stop until the last abductee returns," as he expressed.

Earlier on Tuesday evening, the Israeli army stated that the Red Cross had received the remains of an Israeli captive.

This came shortly after the announcement by "Al-Qassam Brigades" and "Al-Quds Brigades" of their intention to hand over the remains of an Israeli captive on Tuesday evening, after finding him in the middle of Gaza.

Thus, the Palestinian factions have handed over since the start of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement on October 10, 20 living Israeli captives and the remains of 28 others, which is the total number of bodies they possess, according to their announcements.

However, Israel claimed that one of the bodies it received does not belong to any of its captives, and that another set of remains was not new but rather the remains of a captive whose body had previously been retrieved.

Israel conditions the start of negotiations to launch the second phase of the agreement on receiving the remaining bodies of the captives, while "Hamas" asserts that it takes time to extract them due to the massive destruction in Gaza.

In contrast, there are 9,500 missing Palestinians killed by the Israeli army, and their bodies remain under the rubble of the Israeli genocide, according to the government media office in Gaza.

Additionally, more than 10,000 Palestinian captives are held in Israeli prisons, including children and women, suffering from torture, starvation, and medical neglect, with many of them having died, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.

The ceasefire agreement halted the Israeli genocide against Gaza that began on October 8, 2023, resulting in more than 69,000 Palestinian deaths and over 170,000 injuries, most of whom are children and women, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at around $70 billion.