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Teams from Egyptian authorities and the International Committee of the Red Cross have been granted permission to locate the remains of deceased hostages captured during the October 7th incidents, Israeli authorities have verified.

The authorities in Israel stated that the crews have been permitted to operate beyond the referred to as "yellow line" in the area controlled by Israeli forces in the Gaza territory.

The group has transferred fifteen out of twenty-eight deceased Israeli hostages under the initial stage of a American-mediated ceasefire deal, which mandates it to hand over all remains of captives. The group stated it is now coordinating with officials in Egypt.

The former US president has warned Hamas to begin returning the bodies "quickly, or the other countries involved in this great peace will take action".

An official representative indicated the crew from Egypt has been authorized to collaborate with the Red Cross to find the remains, and would use excavator machines and vehicles for the operation beyond the "yellow line".

The "yellow line" indicates the border running along the north, southern and eastern of the Gaza territory that Israeli forces withdrew to, as part of the initial phase of the truce agreement.

Previously, Israel has not approved the entry of these crews.

Egypt, along with Qatar and Turkey, is a key signatory of the mediated by Trump peace initiative for Gaza, which was signed in the coastal city of the resort town earlier this month.

The development will be greeted positively by relatives, eager to provide a proper burial.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has already been heavily involved in the return of captives.

The organization does not hand over its captives - living or deceased - directly to the Israel Defense Forces, but rather to the Red Cross, which in turn accompanies them through the territory and transfers them to the IDF.

But the arrival of digging crews from Egypt inside the Gaza Strip is new.

After more than two years of intense bombardment by Israel, the UN calculates that as much as 84% of the area has been destroyed completely.

Hamas claims it is making every effort to recover hostage bodies, but it encounters challenges locating them under debris of structures bombed out by the Israeli military in Gaza.

It is now working in coordination with the Egyptian authorities.

On the weekend, an Israeli government spokesperson said that Hamas knew where the bodies were.

"If the group put in greater work, they would be able to recover the remains of our hostages," the representative said.

The former president shared on his social media account on Saturday that action would be taken if the bodies of the deceased hostages were not returned quickly.

"A portion of the bodies are hard to reach, but the rest they can hand over at present and, for unknown reasons, they are not. Maybe it has do with their demilitarization," he remarked.

Trump added: "We will observe what they accomplish over the next 48 hours. I am monitoring the situation very closely."

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On Sunday, the Israeli leader said the country would determine which foreign forces it would permit as part of a proposed multinational contingent in the region to help secure the ceasefire under the former president's initiative.

"We are in control of our safety, and we have also stated explicitly regarding foreign troops that Israel will decide which forces are unacceptable to us, and this is how we function and will continue to operate," he said talking at the beginning of a government session.

On the end of the week, the American diplomat said "a lot of countries" had volunteered to be part of the contingent - but noted Israel would have to be comfortable with those taking part.

This seemed like a allusion to the Turkish government, amid reports Israeli officials had rejected the country's involvement.

It was still uncertain, however, how such a force could be deployed without an agreement with the organization.

The Israeli military launched a armed operation in Gaza in following the incidents of October 7th, in which Hamas-led gunmen took the lives of about 1,200 people and captured two hundred fifty-one others as captives.

At least sixty-eight thousand five hundred nineteen have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health authorities under the group's control.