Tel Aviv / PNN /

 The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that the remains of a prisoner received by Tel Aviv from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday have been identified.

Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the National Center of Forensic Medicine had identified the remains of Dror Or, and that his family had been notified.

It called on Hamas to “fulfill its commitments to the mediators and return the (bodies) of the remaining hostages as part of implementing the ceasefire agreement.”

Netanyahu’s office added: “We will not relent and will spare no effort until we bring back all the abducted.”

In exchange for the remains of each prisoner, Israel releases the bodies of 15 Palestinians it killed during the war on Gaza and continues to hold.

Most of the bodies of the Palestinian prisoners showed signs of severe torture, as well as starvation and medical neglect, with some reportedly killed by suffocation.

The Israeli army said in a statement on Wednesday that Or, from the Be’eri settlement near Gaza, was killed on October 7, 2023.

Israel claims that the remains of two prisoners are still in Gaza, one of them a Thai worker.

Hamas, meanwhile, says it has handed over all 20 living Israeli prisoners and the remains of all 28 deceased prisoners.

Israel conditions the start of negotiations to launch the second phase of the ceasefire agreement on receiving all prisoners’ bodies.

In contrast, there are 9,500 missing Palestinians killed by the Israeli army whose bodies remain under the rubble of the war, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.

More than 10,000 Palestinian detainees are also held in Israeli prisons, including children and women, suffering from torture, starvation, and medical neglect, with many of them dying, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights reports and media outlets.

The Israeli war on Gaza has resulted in more than 69,000 martyrs and around 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, along with massive destruction. The UN has estimated reconstruction costs at around $70 billion.

The agreement that began on October 10 was supposed to end the war, but Israel violates it daily, leading to the killing and injury of hundreds of Palestinians.

Israel also continues to block sufficient food and medical supplies from entering Gaza, where around 2.4 million Palestinians are living in catastrophic conditions.