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The armed wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, did not resume the search for the body of the Israeli hostage remaining in Gaza this Thursday, as witnessed by EFE, a circumstance that a member of the search team attributed to Israel not having given them permission to access the site, which is located on the other side of the yellow zone, in territory controlled by the Israeli Army.
EFE went this morning to the area where the search for the remains of Israeli police officer Yan Gvili began yesterday, Wednesday, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in the north of the enclave.
No search team went there this Thursday, according to EFE, and a member of the team stated that the reason is that Israel has not given the International Committee of the Red Cross, the organization that coordinates and supervises the searches, permission to access there.
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EFE consulted these statements with the Israeli Army, without having obtained a response at the moment. The Israeli Army controls just over half of the Gaza Strip, an area where Palestinians cannot go under risk of being shot by Israeli troops. Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Hazem Qassam, stated yesterday that the Islamist organization is making "enormous efforts 24 hours a day" to comply with the handover of the last hostage's body, despite "significant complications" they encounter due to "the widespread destruction" of the Palestinian enclave. Hamas' armed wing already searched for Gvili's body in early December in the same neighborhood of the Gazan capital. The release of the 48 living and deceased hostages from Gaza is one of the commitments that Hamas has to fulfill in the first phase of the truce agreement promoted by the United States. Since its entry into force on October 10, the Islamists have been delivering the remains of these captives in a trickle, due, as they have been pointing out, to the problems they have faced in order to find them among the thousands of tons of rubble caused by the Israeli bombings. The Israeli government, however, has reproached Hamas for prolonging this handover of bodies to avoid negotiations on the second phase, in which they have to address, among other issues, the disarmament of the militia. Both officials from the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have visited Cairo in recent days to discuss progress on the second phase of the truce and the opening of the Rafah crossing, which connects Gaza with Egypt. Israeli media indicated that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not open the crossing until Hamas hands over the remains of the last captive hostage.
