Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed"until further notice," despite statements from the Palestinian Embassy in Egypt and the World Health Organization (WHO) that it would reopen on Monday.

"Prime Minister Netanyahu has indicated that the Rafah crossing will not be opened until further notice. Its opening will be considered depending on how Hamas fulfills its part by returning the hostages and implementing the agreed framework," the statement said.

This afternoon, the Palestinian Embassy in Egypt announced in a statement that the crossing would reopen on Monday, and the WHO confirmed this announcement to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

"The Rafah border crossing will open from Monday to allow Palestinians residents of Egypt who wish to return to Gaza to travel, in accordance with the established coordination mechanism," the embassy statement said, without specifying when it would allow access to humanitarian aid.

The Israeli president urged the Islamist group Hamas to return the 18 bodies of hostages still held in Gaza if they want Rafah, the main humanitarian aid crossing into Gaza, to reopen.

Shortly after this statement was released, Hamas's armed wing announced that it would hand over the bodies of two hostages this Saturday.

The Ezedin al-Qassam Brigades will hand over at 19:00 GMT"the bodies of two Israeli prisoners whose remains were found today in the Gaza Strip," according to a text posted on its Telegram channel.

U.S. President Donald Trump's ceasefire proposal specified that its entry into force would also mark"the immediate start of the full entry of humanitarian aid," although it did not specify whether this included all the steps or their opening times.

In this context, the opening of Rafah has been postponed over the last week.

Cogat, the Israeli military agency in charge of civil affairs in the occupied territories, said Thursday that it was working with Egypt to prepare for the reopening to the movement of people, but not supplies. However, it limited itself to saying that this would be announced"later."

Israel continues to limit aid access to Gaza, claiming that Hamas has not fulfilled its part of the agreement by returning all the hostages, as 18 bodies of kidnapped people remain in the enclave.

Trump's proposal stipulates that, 72 hours after the ceasefire, Hamas must hand over the bodies of captives"in its possession."

However, during the negotiations, Hamas made it clear to the mediators, and the mediators to both Israel and the United States, that it did not have all the bodies at its disposal. Therefore, the agreement itself includes an international force that will contribute to the search.

This Friday, the Islamists managed to exhume the body of hostage Eliyahu Margalit, returning it that night to the Red Cross, which then returned it to Israel.

For its part, the Hamas government in Gaza accuses Israel of violating the agreement on 47 occasions, opening fire on the population or making occasional arrests. As a result of the army's attacks, 38 Palestinians have died in Gaza this week.