Israeli forces said they resumed the Gaza ceasefire after strikes on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Hamas to act faster in returning the bodies of deceased hostages amid a delicate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal by withholding the bodies of the remaining 13 deceased hostages thought to have died during or after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
Hamas has said the return of the remaining bodies "may take some time" due to the destruction wrought in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday instructed the country's military to "carry out powerful strikes in Gaza," a statement from his office said, in response to alleged ceasefire violations by Hamas.
The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday they had resumed the ceasefire.
Hamas said it will delay the planned handover of a hostage body to Israel because of Israel’s "violations" of the ceasefire.
Hamas previously said it would hand over the remains of a hostage to Israeli authorities at 8 p.m. local time.
-ABC News' Sami Zyara
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the Israeli military to "carry out powerful strikes in Gaza," a statement from the prime minister’s office said.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement accusing Hamas of a "clear violation" of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, after Israeli authorities identified hostage remains returned on Monday as belonging to a deceased hostage previously recovered from the strip in 2023.
The returns received by Israeli authorities on Monday belonged to Ofir Tzarfati, according to the statement published by the prime minister's official X account on Tuesday. Tzarfati was wounded and abducted during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Tzarfati died in captivity and his body was recovered from Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces in late 2023.
"This is a clear violation of the agreement by the terrorist organization Hamas," Netanyahu's office said.
The prime minister "will hold a security discussion with the heads of the defense establishment, in which they will discuss Israel's steps in the face of the violations," it added.
Tzarfati's family released a statement confirming his remains were returned on Monday. The statement accused Hamas of "an abhorrent manipulation designed to sabotage the deal and abandon the effort to bring all the hostages home."
-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Othon Leyva
A coffin has been transferred to the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet forces inside of Gaza from the Red Cross, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said in a release on Monday.
The IDF will take the coffin to Israel where it will then be taken to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine for identification.
The Red Cross received the coffin from Hamas at the designated meeting point inside Gaza and then transferred it to IDF troops inside Gaza.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
