A senior Hamas official has shared with the BBC an inventory of 34 hostages that the Palestinian group says it’s prepared to launch within the first stage of a possible ceasefire settlement with Israel.
It’s unclear what number of of these named stay alive.
Amongst them are 10 girls and 11 older male hostages aged between 50 and 85, in addition to younger youngsters who Hamas beforehand stated had been killed in an Israeli air strike.
Quite a lot of hostages who Hamas says are sick are additionally included on the listing.
Experiences from the Hamas-run Gaza well being ministry say Israeli air strikes killed greater than 100 individuals there on the weekend.
The Israeli prime minister’s workplace denied experiences that Hamas had supplied Israel with an inventory of hostages.
“The listing of abductees revealed within the media was not handed on to Israel by Hamas, however was initially handed from Israel to intermediaries as early as July 2024,” it stated.
“Thus far, Israel has not acquired any affirmation or remark from Hamas relating to the standing of the abductees on the listing.”
Hamas’s resolution to launch the names of hostages will likely be seen by some as an try to extend public strain on the Israeli authorities.
Ceasefire negotiations resumed in Doha, Qatar, over the weekend, however the talks don’t seem to have made important progress but.
A Hamas official advised 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 warfare.
“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 individuals and taking 251 others hostage.
Israel’s navy marketing campaign to destroy Hamas had killed at the very least 45,805 individuals in Gaza as of Saturday, in keeping with the territory’s Hamas-run well being ministry.
The identical supply says Israeli air strikes killed 88 individuals 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 power had attacked greater than 100 “terrorist” websites throughout the Gaza Strip over the weekend, killing dozens of Hamas militants.
