Trump: Hamas digging through rubble to find bodies in gruesome process

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Hamas is looking for the remains of deceased hostages and is searching through the rubble of buildings toppled by Israeli bombardment, news Agency Anadolu reported. 

Trump said that the organisation was continuing its efforts to find the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages through tunnels underneath Gaza's streets, as part of his 20-point ceasefire plan.

"We have the living hostages all back. They returned some more today. It's a gruesome process," he said. "But they're digging. They're actually digging. There are areas where they're digging, and they're finding a lot of bodies. Then they have to separate the bodies. You wouldn't believe this. And some of those bodies have been in there a long time, and some of them are under rubble. They have to remove rubble."

"We continue to give them the intelligence that the Israelis have, and we'll keep working in good faith until we were able to exhaust that mechanism," a senior US advisor later told reporters.