Egypt is near to brokering a “humanitarian truce” deal in the war in Gaza that would involve an exchange of Israeli captives and Palestinian detainees.
Meanwhile, Hamas has confirmed speaking to Israel via mediators on the issue of exchanging prisoners, according to Al Arabiya.
Hamas has been holding more than 240 Israelis and foreign nationals after capturing them at the start of the war on 7 October.
In recent days, Hamas has announced that a number of its captives were killed in the Israeli bombing campaign on the strip.
In October, Hamas released four captives, including two US citizens and two elderly Israeli women.
Worth mentioning, the number of Palestinians killed by Israel’s war on Gaza has reached 10,569 people, including 4,324 children and 2,823 women. At the same time, more than 24,000 have been wounded, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Nearly 1.5 million Palestinians have been internally displaced by the Israeli army from the north to the South of the strip in the most significant forced displacement seen in the strip since 1948.
A third of all buildings in the north of Gaza have been destroyed.
