Hamas claims Israel asked to examine unidentified bodies, refused samples to check if they were hostages

The Hamas terror group’s military wing confirms it handed over the remains of three bodies to Israel last night via the Red Cross.

The remains, however, were not identified as any of the dead hostages by Israeli forensic experts.

According to the Al-Qassam Brigades, it had offered samples of the unidentified bodies it found, but “the enemy refused to receive the samples and requested to receive the bodies for examination.”

Hamas says it handed over the remains “to counter the enemy’s claims.”

There has been no comment from Israel on the transfer last night, but it has previously charged that the terror group knows the location of the vast majority of the remaining bodies of hostages, and is purposely stalling.

Hamas, in its statement, says that its teams are ready to continue to work on “extracting the bodies of enemy captives inside the Yellow Line,” referring to areas of the Strip under IDF control.

“The Al-Qassam Brigades demand that the intermediaries and the International Committee of the Red Cross provide and prepare the equipment and teams necessary to recover all the bodies simultaneously,” the terror group adds.