Qatar, the United States and Egypt offer a six-week truce and the release of 42 hostages held in Gaza, in exchange for several hundred Palestinian prisoners. Hamas said it was currently unable to locate the 40 hostages whose release Israel is demanding as part of negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas told international mediators that it did not hold 40 living hostages meeting these criteria for release, indicate the two sources cited by CNN. More than 250 people have been kidnapped and 129 remain detained in Gaza,. including 34 who have died, according to Israeli officials.. Some of them are under the rubble, killed with our own citizens, a Hamas source said. The latest ceasefire proposal has not yet received the approval of the Palestinian movement or Israel. A spokesperson for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, accused Hamas on Thursday of “turning its back” on “an offer” very reasonable . “Hamas is studying the offer,” a spokesperson for the Islamist movement repeated.