A senior Hamas official has shared with the BBC an inventory of 34 hostages that the Palestinian group says it’s keen to launch within the first stage of a possible ceasefire settlement with Israel.
It’s unclear what number of hostages stay alive.
Amongst these named are 10 ladies and 11 older male hostages aged between 50 and 85, in addition to younger youngsters that Hamas beforehand stated had been killed in an Israeli air strike.
Various hostages that Hamas says are sick are additionally included on the checklist.
Experiences from Hamas-run Gaza say Israeli air strikes killed greater than 100 folks there on the weekend.
The Israeli prime minister’s workplace denied stories that Hamas had offered Israel with an inventory of hostages.
Ceasefire negotiations resumed in Doha, Qatar, over the weekend, however the talks don’t seem to have made vital progress but.
A Hamas official instructed Reuters information company any settlement to return Israeli hostages would rely upon a deal for Israel to withdraw from Gaza and a everlasting ceasefire or finish to the conflict.
“Nevertheless, till now, the occupation continues to be obstinate over an settlement over the problems of the ceasefire and withdrawal, and has made no step ahead,” the official stated, talking on situation of anonymity.
Earlier, Hamas posted a video of 19-year-old Israeli captive Liri Albag urging her authorities to make a deal.
She was captured together with six different feminine conscript troopers on the Nahal Oz military base on the Gaza border throughout Hamas’s assault on 7 October 2023.
On that day Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing about 1,200 folks and taking 251 others hostage.
Israel’s navy marketing campaign to destroy Hamas had killed no less than 45,805 folks in Gaza as of Saturday, in accordance with the territory’s Hamas-run well being ministry.
The identical supply says Israeli air strikes killed 88 folks in Gaza on Saturday itself whereas on Sunday, Reuters information company quoted well being sources as saying an extra 17 had died in 4 separate Israeli assaults on the territory.
The Israeli navy stated on Sunday that its air pressure had attacked greater than 100 “terrorist” websites throughout the Gaza Strip over the weekend, killing dozens of Hamas militants.
