A senior Hamas official has shared with the BBC a list of 34 hostages the Palestinian group says it is willing to release in the first phase of a possible ceasefire deal with Israel.
It is unclear how many hostages are alive.
Among those named are 10 female and 11 elderly male hostages between the ages of 50 and 85, as well as young children who Hamas previously said had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
According to Hamas, several hostages are also included in this list.
Reports from Hamas-run Gaza said Israeli airstrikes killed more than 100 people there over the weekend.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office has denied reports that Hamas provided Israel with a list of hostages.
Ceasefire talks resumed over the weekend in Doha, Qatar, but so far no significant progress appears to have been made in the talks.
A Hamas official told Reuters that any deal to return the Israeli hostages would depend on an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a permanent ceasefire or an end to the war.
“However, so far, the occupation has stubbornly stuck to an agreement on ceasefire and withdrawal issues, and has not taken any steps forward,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
before that, Hamas has posted a video of 19-year-old Israeli captive Larry Albaugh. He insisted on making an agreement with his government.
She was captured along with six other female conscripts at the Nihal Oz military base on the Gaza border during a Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
That day, Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Israel’s military campaign to crush Hamas has killed at least 45,805 people in Gaza as of Saturday, according to the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry.
The same source said that 88 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday alone, while on Sunday, the Reuters news agency cited health sources as saying that 17 more people were killed in four separate Israeli attacks on the area. happened
The Israeli military said on Sunday that its air force struck more than 100 “terrorist” positions in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, killing dozens of Hamas militants.