Israel said Wednesday that the forensic remains handed over a day earlier by Hamas belong to neither of the two remaining hostages whose bodies are held in the Gaza Strip.

The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that testing was completed by the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv and the families of the two remaining hostages — Israeli police officer Master Sgt. Ran Gvili and Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak — were informed of the update.

“The efforts to bring them home will not stop until the mission is complete — returning them for a proper burial in their country,” the PMO added.

Searches by Hamas and the Red Cross to locate the remains of Gvili and Rinthalak are expected to continue in the coming days, the Kan public broadcaster reported.

Additionally, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, the Al Quds Brigades, said Wednesday that it was searching for the body of a hostage in northern Gaza with a team from the Red Cross.

A senior Red Cross official told The Times of Israel on Tuesday that the findings it handed over to the IDF from Hamas........

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