The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group has been conducting searches for the body of a hostage in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, Arab media reports.
Footage shows Islamic Jihad gunmen standing alongside excavators with Egyptian flags on them during the digging operations in the area.
The searches began yesterday, according to Al Jazeera.
Separately, the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reports that Hamas is carrying out searches for a body in the Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding the bodies of three hostages: Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, Dror Or, and Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak.
They are obliged to return them under the terms of the US-brokered ceasefire deal. However, the groups claim they have trouble locating the remaining bodies.
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