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 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. They asked everyone to remain calm and noted, Until it's final, it's not over.\
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, near Rafah in southern Gaza when Hamas fighters ambushed Israeli soldiers during a patrol.
The Israeli military launched massive operations in retaliation to prevent Hamas from taking Lt Goldin's body, leading to significant civilian casualties.
The Israeli military said it had identified another body handed over from Gaza as that of Israeli-Argentinian Lior Rudaeff.
Since the ceasefire began, at least 241 individuals have been killed by Israeli military actions in Gaza, according to reports.
