Israel National News reports: “The Hamas terror group is continuing to claim that it is having difficulty locating the bodies of deceased hostages, despite Israeli intelligence assessments indicating that the terror group knows where almost all the bodies are located.

Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas leader, claimed Sunday night to Al Jazeera that Hamas had conveyed messages to mediators months ago regarding difficulties in locating the bodies.

‘We told the mediators months ago that there are problems in searching for them because Israel has changed the landscape in the Gaza Strip, even in areas where the dead were buried. In some cases, it is no longer known where they were buried. There is American understanding of this issue, and we have made it clear,’ he told the news outlet…”