London | The Middle East’s fragile truce has been pushed to breaking point after Israel cut the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza over terror group Hamas’ failure to provide all the remains of 28 deceased hostages, as troops shot dead six Palestinians for approaching the ceasefire line.

In a move to ease the tensions, Hamas handed over the remains of some of the hostages on Tuesday evening (Wednesday AEDT). The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had transferred those remains to Israeli authorities “in line with the ceasefire agreement”.