Hamas announced that, as part of the deal being forged with Israel, it is willing to release a group of 50 hostages in the first stage, in exchange for four to five days of a truce, the release of approximately 150 Palestinian Arab prisoners - children and women - and the entry of fuel into the Strip.

Hamas claimed that it does not know where all the abducted children and mothers are, but the terrorist organization is willing to locate them in the first days of the ceasefire, provided that Israel refrains from aerial activity.