Gaza (QNN)- Israel has threatened to resume the genocide in Gaza and derail the ceasefire agreement, alleging that Hamas is moving too slowly in handing over the bodies of deceased captives. The Palestinian group, the Red Cross, and US President Trump have acknowledged that recovering the remains has been challenging due to the widespread destruction in Gaza. Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, released a statement saying it has met its commitments under Trump’s Gaza plan as it pertains to Israeli captives in Gaza. “The resistance has adhered to what was agreed upon and has handed over all the living prisoners it has and the bodies it can access,” it said. “As for the remaining bodies, they require significant efforts and special equipment to search for and retrieve them, and we are making great efforts to close this file.” The ceasefire plan introduced by Trump called for all captives – living and dead – to be handed over by a deadline that expired Monday. But under the deal, if that didn’t happen, Hamas was to share information about deceased abductees and try to hand them over as soon as possible. Hamas and the Red Cross have said recovering the remains of dead captives was a challenge because of Gaza’s vast destruction, and Hamas has told mediators some are in areas controlled by Israeli forces. Hamas said it is doing its best to uphold its end of the ceasefire deal and honouring the agreement, but it’s certainly going to need assistance in trying to locate the remaining bodies of captives because Gaza is completely in ruins. However, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has instructed the Israeli military to draw up a “comprehensive plan” to completely defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip should the truce collapse. According to The Times of Israel, citing Katz’s office, he instructed “the preparation of a plan for the complete defeat of Hamas in Gaza if it refuses to implement President Trump’s plan, and it becomes necessary to resume fighting”. “If Hamas refuses to implement the agreement, Israel, in coordination with the US, will return to fighting and act to achieve the complete defeat of Hamas, change the reality in Gaza, and attain all the objectives of the war,” Katz’s office added. Israel has told the Trump administration the next phase of the ceasefire with Hamas cannot be entered into until all of the captives’ remains are returned, Axios reported. “Israeli officials acknowledge that a small number of the bodies will be hard to locate, but claim between 15 and 20 could be quickly returned.” “Both Israeli and US officials close to the process are concerned that elements within the Netanyahu government – particularly ultranationalist ministers Betzalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir – will use the issue of hostage remains to undermine the deal [which they oppose] and push for the resumption of the war,” the news report said. Trump spoke earlier on the difficulty of retrieving the bodies of Israeli captives from destroyed areas in Gaza. “It’s a gruesome process. I almost hate to talk about it so. But they’re digging. They are actually digging,” Trump told reporters in the White House. “There are areas where they are digging, and they are 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,” Trump said. “Some are in tunnels, that died in tunnels, that are way down under the earth. And the tunnels are like three feet. Can you believe it, three feet high? They lived like this for a long period of time. It’s a horrible atrocity,” he said. On Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.