The Times of Israel reports: “Israel said Thursday it would increase pressure on Hamas to return the remaining 19 bodies of deceased hostages, with a task force reportedly already having entered Gaza for that purpose.

After the Palestinian terror group insisted that the bodies it has returned so far are the only ones it can currently locate, a senior official told Israel’s Channel 12 that ‘there is a double-digit number of hostages that it can return.’

Meanwhile, an unconfirmed report on Channel 13 said that an international team set up to locate remaining bodies had entered the Strip within the previous 24 hours, and was set to begin its work soon, based on intelligence provided by Israel.

Hamas has returned the remains of nine deceased hostages since it accepted the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, which on Monday saw the release of the final 20 living hostages still held by terror groups in the Strip. The US-brokered ceasefire deal, signed in Egypt on October 9, obligated Hamas to release ‘all Israeli hostages, living and deceased,’ within 72 hours of Israeli troops’ October 10 partial withdrawal — a deadline that expired at noon on Monday. But the agreement also acknowledged that some hostages’ remains would likely not be retrieved right away…”