A list of 34 hostages that the Palestinian group says it is willing to release in the first stage of a potential ceasefire agreement with Israel was recently shared by a senior Hamas official to the BBC.
It is however, unclear how many hostages are alive at this time.
Among those listed are 10 women and 11 older male hostages aged between 50 and 85, and young children that Hamas had formerly said was killed in an Israeli air strike.
A number of hostages Hamas reported sick were also included on the list.
Reports from Hamas-operated Gaza say Israeli air strikes killed over 100 people there at the weekend.
Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister’s office denied reports that Hamas had provided Israel with a list of hostages.
Ceasefire negotiations resumed in Doha, Qatar, over the weekend, but the talks do not seem to have made significant progress yet.
A Hamas official further told Reuters that any agreement to return Israeli hostages would hinge on a deal for Israel to withdraw from Gaza and a permanent ceasefire or end to the war.
Israel’s military campaign to ‘decimate’ Hamas had killed at least 45,805 people in Gaza as of Saturday, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
The same source also revealed that Israeli air strikes killed 88 people in Gaza on Saturday itself. On Sunday, Reuters quoted health sources who announced that 17 people had died in four separate Israeli attacks on the territory.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that its air force had attacked over 100 “terrorist” sites across the Gaza Strip over the weekend, killing dozens of Hamas militants.
