Israel on Monday received caskets holding what Hamas said were the bodies of four slain hostages from Gaza, as it accused Hamas of failing to stand by the commitments it agreed to under the ceasefire by not releasing all the bodies it was holding.

It remained silent on the fate of the 24 other dead hostages it was holding.

Hamas said Monday the bodies of Guy Illouz, Yossi Sharabi, Bipin Joshi and Daniel Perez would be handed over. The IDF said troops in the Gaza Strip received four caskets, with the apparent bodies of slain hostages, from the Red Cross on Monday evening.

Israeli police officers were escorting the caskets containing the apparent remains of the four hostages to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv, where they will undergo identification.

Hamas has in the past sent back unrelated bodies instead of hostages.

Joshi had not previously been confirmed by Israel to be dead, but authorities had expressed “grave concerns” for his well-being.

According to Channel 12, the family of Tamir Nimrodi, a second hostage about whom Israel had expressed grave concern, was told on Monday that he was now confirmed as dead. But this was not confirmed, and the Hostages Families Forum said it had received no word of a change in his status. Nimrodi had been widely assumed to be dead, especially in the past few days, when Israeli officials had indicated that they were expecting the return of 20 living and 28 dead hostages.

Earlier on Monday, the terror group returned the last 20 living hostages it was holding, following the partial withdrawal by the........

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