Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

The United States will share a draft resolution on President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza with the 10 elected members of the United Nations Security Council later on Wednesday, a US official said.

Representatives for Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates will join the US, "showing clear regional support," the official added.

Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas agreed a month ago to the first phase of Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza: a ceasefire in their two-year war and hostage-release deal.

The United States has drafted a UN Security Council resolution that would approve a two-year mandate for a Gaza transitional governance body and an international stabilization force in the Palestinian enclave, according to the text seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Israel received the remains of another captive from Gaza, the prime minister's office said, after Hamas transferred a body found near Gaza City to the Red Cross.

Israel's forensics authority will confirm the identity of the remains, the office said. If proven to belong to a hostage, there would be six remaining deceased hostages in Gaza.

Separately, the Israeli military said it had killed two Palestinians in Gaza, saying they approached an Israeli-controlled area in a "threatening" way.

Gaza health authorities said Israeli fire also killed a Palestinian collecting firewood in central Gaza. The Israeli military said it was not aware of an incident in that area.

Turkiye's MIT intelligence agency chief met Hamas' negotiating team head Khalil Al-Hayya on Wednesday and they discussed the path to be followed in implementing the next phases of the Gaza ceasefire plan, Turkish security sources said.

They said MIT chief Ibrahim Kalin met the Hamas delegation in Istanbul and they also discussed steps to ensure smooth operation of the ceasefire process and how to overcome existing problems.

Hamas's armed wing said it would hand over the remains of another hostage on Wednesday as required under the US-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel in Gaza.

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades "will hand over the body of an Israeli prisoner found in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, at 9pm Gaza time, the group said on its Telegram channel.

Of the 28 deceased hostages Hamas agreed to hand over to Israel under the deal, it has so far returned 21 — including 19 Israelis, one Thai national and one Nepali.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has written a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, reiterating Saudi Arabia’s support for the Palestinian people, Wafa news agency reported.

In the letter, the Saudi Crown Prince said his nation remained committed to the Palestinians’ pursuit of an independent state.

He added that Saudi Arabia would work with international partners to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches Gaza and that Palestinian tax revenues withheld by Israel are released.

Israel has handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, a day after Hamas returned the body of an Israeli-American soldier, Al-Jazeera reported.

Health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed the handover.

The latest transfer brings the total number of Palestinian bodies returned to Gaza to 285.

More than 26,000 people in the United Kingdom have signed a petition demanding the cancellation of Thursday’s fixture between Aston Villa and Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv, citing the Israeli club's alleged links to the genocide in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.

The petition, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), was delivered to the Football Association (FA) headquarters at Wembley Stadium. It calls on both the FA and UEFA to cancel the match and to “take steps to exclude Israel from international football.”

According to the campaign, allowing Israeli teams to participate in European competitions “obscures the reality of genocide in Gaza.” The group further accused Maccabi Tel Aviv of being “directly involved” in Israel’s military campaign by reportedly sending care packages to Israeli soldiers.

The petition also alleged that the Israel Football Association (IFA) breaches UEFA and FIFA regulations by including teams from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, in violation of international law.

Violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has continued overnight, with reports of further raids and detentions by Israeli forces and settlers, Al Jazeera reported citing Wafa news agency.

Israeli troops detained a young Palestinian man from the Am’ari refugee camp during a raid in Ramallah.

Settlers raided Palestinian farmland in the town of al-Attarra, northwest of Ramallah, and seized olive harvests.

In Beit Inan, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers assaulted two Palestinian brothers while they were harvesting olives.

Elsewhere, settlers set fire to farmland near al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus.

As reported earlier, Israeli forces and settlers carried out more than 2,300 attacks across the West Bank last month, according to the PLO’s Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission.