THIS is the chilling moment Hamas brutes appear to try and rebury a hostage’s body before pretending to discover the corpse.
Israeli drones recorded the shocking footage from Gaza which shows what is believed to be a body bag being placed in a large hole in the ground and covered with soil.
Three Hamas militants can be seen in the video taking the body bag out of a building in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City on Monday.
They carried it down a mound of dirt and placed in on the ground.
The thugs then picked up shovels and covered the body bag in dirt inside a hole.
One of the terrorists even appears to stand directly on top of the white bag during the horror burial.
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A truck then comes to the site and moves the dirt over to another area next to destroyed buildings and rubble.
A short time later, the terror brutes acted out a “discovery” of the body.
They can be seen on the drone footage running over to the dirt with cameras and filming the body bag sticking out of the mound.
After recovering the body, they handed it over to the Red Cross in a casket on Monday night.
Hamas tried to say the body was one of the 13 hostages still unaccounted for since they were ordered to return every last captive so a peace deal can be implemented in Gaza.
Israel tested the corpse and found the remains inside were just fragments from a hostage who had already been returned and buried nearly two years ago.
The IDF said they belonged to Ofir Tzarfati, 27, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre.
Tzarfati was killed in captivity and his body sent back to his loved ones in November 2023.
The sickening act from Hamas provoked a strong response from all groups involved including the Israeli government and Tzarfati’s family.
In a press conference at the family home in Kiryat Ata, Tzarfati’s mother, Rachel, said the family are again having to deal with “continuous emotional abuse” from the terror group.
She said: “It’s a punch in the gut, an arrow to the heart, a wound that is reopened again and again.”
As a furious Red Cross blasted Hamas for their deceitful actions.
They said: “It is unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged, when so much depends on this agreement being upheld and when so many families are still anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.”
And it was the IDF who responded to the depraved act from Hamas by pounding Gaza with a wave of airstrikes.
At least 31 people died as Tel Aviv vowed Hamas would “pay” for breaking the fragile ceasefire and sending back the wrong hostage remains.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the retaliation late on Tuesday as he accused Hamas of “deception and treachery”.
An IDF spokesman added: “Despite claiming difficulty locating the bodies of deceased hostages, Hamas continues to hold and manipulate the remains it refuses to release under the agreement.
“Hamas’s claims of lacking engineering equipment are baseless; such tools are unnecessary for the transfer of remains and do not prevent the return of the deceased hostages.”
Hamas has continued to claim it can’t locate any of the remaining hostages amid the destruction in Gaza.
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Over the weekend, Egyptian teams with heavy machinery entered Gaza to assist in locating the remaining bodies.
Israel says this should mean Hamas have no choice but to find the bodies and return them to their loved ones in Israel.