Israel has received the body of a hostage after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was expecting the remains of a soldier killed in 2014 to be returned.
The body was being taken to be formally identified, the Israeli military said.
Earlier, Netanyahu said Israel was due to receive the body of Hadar Goldin, a soldier who was killed in an ambush by Hamas during a previous conflict in 2014 and whose body has been held in Gaza since then.
Hamas's armed wing also said on Sunday that it would hand over Hadar Goldin's body.
If the body is confirmed to be Lt Goldin's, Hamas will have returned all 20 living hostages and 24 out of 28 deceased hostages under the first phase of a ceasefire deal.
Netanyahu said Lt Goldin's family would now be able to give him a Jewish burial and reiterated his intention to bring back the bodies of all deceased hostages. We have returned 250 so far. We will bring them all back, he said.
On Saturday Lt Goldin's family said an entire nation is waiting for Hadar to be returned to us. We are waiting for official confirmation that Hadar has returned to Israel. We don't give up on anyone in this country, ever. We ask everyone to remain calm. Until it's final, it's not over, the family said in a statement.
Lt Goldin, from Kfar Saba, is the only deceased hostage whose remains were being held in Gaza before the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which sparked the latest war.
He was killed in combat on 1 August 2014, shortly after the start of a ceasefire in that year's war between Israel and Hamas. He was among a group of Israeli soldiers who patrolled an agricultural area near Rafah when they were attacked by Hamas fighters.
The Israeli military determined that Lt Goldin was killed along with two other soldiers in a firefight, and that his body was then dragged into an underground tunnel by the Hamas fighters.
The Israeli military unleashed massive firepower to prevent Hamas from taking Lt Goldin hostage. Scores of Palestinian civilians were killed during the bombardment of Rafah, which continued for four days after Lt Goldin was declared dead.
On Saturday, the Israeli military confirmed the identification of a body handed over from Gaza as that of Israeli-Argentinian Lior Rudaeff.
Also on Saturday, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza. The Israeli military stated that these individuals had crossed the yellow line marking Israeli control in Gaza and posed an immediate threat.
Since the start of the ceasefire, the Israeli military operations have resulted in at least 241 fatalities, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, which is considered reliable by the UN.
The ongoing Israeli military campaign was initiated in response to the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas, which resulted in approximately 1,200 deaths in southern Israel and 251 hostages taken.
Since then, health ministry reports indicate that at least 69,169 people have died in Gaza due to Israeli attacks.
