Hamas's armed wing said it would hand over the remains of another hostage as required under the US-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel in Gaza.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades "will hand over the body of one of the occupation's prisoners, which was found in the Shujaiya neighbourhood east of Gaza City at 8pm Gaza time (6pm Irish time)," the group said on its Telegram channel.
Of the 28 deceased hostages Hamas agreed to hand over to Israel under the deal, it has so far returned 20 - including 18 Israelis, one Thai national and one Nepali.
Earlier, Hamas's armed wing announced it had found a hostage's body in Shujaiya "during ongoing search and excavation operations inside the yellow line," referring to the de facto boundary marking Israeli military positions inside Gaza.
In a separate statement, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the militant group was working on "completing the process of handing over the bodies of the Israeli captives despite the difficulties and obstacles".
"We are working to complete the entire exchange process as soon as possible," he added.
Under a ceasefire deal that took effect on 10 October, Hamas turned over all 20 living hostages held in Gaza in return for nearly 2,000 Palestinian convicts and wartime detainees held inIsrael.
Hamas also promised to turn over the remains of deceased hostages but says Gaza's war devastation has made locating bodies difficult. Israel accuses Hamas of stalling.
Before now, Hamas had returned 20 of the 28 bodies of hostages that had been buried in Gaza.
In return, Israel handed over 270 bodies of Palestinians it had killed since the war erupted in October 2023, Gaza health authorities said.
Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in their cross-border attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, according to Israeli tallies. Israel's retaliatory offensive in Gaza killed over 68,000 Palestinians, health officials in the enclave say.
The US-brokered ceasefire has broadly held through repeated incidents of violence. Palestinian health authorities say Israeli forces have killed 239 people in strikes since the truce took effect, nearly half of them in a single day last week when Israel retaliated for a militant attack on its troops.
Israel says three of its soldiers have been killed and it has targeted scores of militants it says have approached lines behind which Israeli troops have withdrawn under the truce.
Earlier, Gaza health authorities said Israeli fire killed a man in Jabalia in northern Gaza. Israel's military said it killed a "terrorist" who crossed into areas the army continues to occupy and posed an imminent threat.
UN says food parcels delivered to one million Gazans
The United Nations said it had distributed food parcels to one million people in Gaza since the ceasefire, but warned it was still in a race to save lives.
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) stressed all crossing points into Gaza should be opened to flood the famine-hit Palestinian territory with aid, adding that no reason was given why the northern crossings with Israel remained closed.
"Three and a half weeks into the ceasefire in Gaza, we have distributed food parcels to around one million people across the Gaza Strip," said the WFP's Middle East spokeswoman Abeer Etefa.
"That's part of the broad operation to push back hunger in Gaza," she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Cairo.
WFP aims to reach 1.6 million people in the territory with parcels, which provide enough food for a family for 10 days.
However, to get operations running at the level required, "we really need more access, more border crossings to be opened and more access to key roads inside Gaza," said Ms Etefa.
The US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October. Ms Etefa described how the WFP was scaling up operations in Gaza and opened 44 of the 145 food distribution points it hopes to run.
An estimated 700,000 people are now receiving fresh bread daily, supplied through 17 WFP-supported bakeries: nine in south and central Gaza, and eight in the north. The agency is hoping to get 25 up and running.
Ms Etefa said while food consumption levels had increased slightly thanks to the humanitarian aid and commercial trucks now allowed to enter, they remained well below pre-conflict levels.
Furthermore, at this stage, households are still eating mostly cereals and pulses, with meat, eggs, vegetables and fruit being consumed "extremely rarely".
Nour Hammad, WFP's spokeswoman in Gaza, said commercial food prices were still beyond the reach of most families, saying an apple now costs as much as a kilogramme of apples did before the war broke out in October 2023.
The WFP said it had only been able to bring in roughly half of what was required to meet the food needs of people in Gaza.
"The needs are overwhelming," said Ms Etefa, adding: "We are in a race to save lives."
She said WFP trucks were still only coming through the Kerem Shalom and Kissufim crossings, severely limiting the amount of aid that can enter Gaza, and posing a major obstacle to getting aid to the north.
"We actually haven't been given clear answers on why the northern crossing points are still closed," she said.
