Report: Palestinian women and child prisoners to be swapped for 100 captive Israeli women
“Consensus” has been reached on the release of a number of Palestinian women and child prisoners in return for 100 women and a child held captive by Hamas, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday.
Complicating Israel's military push inside the Gaza Strip is the fate of around 240 hostages abducted on October 7.
CIA director Bill Burns and David Barnea, head of Israel's Mossad spy agency, were in Doha for talks on pauses that would include hostage releases and more aid for Gaza, an official told AFP.
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad released a video Thursday showing two hostages -- a woman in her 70s and a 13-year-old boy -- which confirms that not all captives are held by Hamas.
Israel's military slammed the video as "psychological terrorism."
Four hostages have been freed so far, and the desperate relatives of those still held have piled pressure on Israeli and U.S. authorities to secure the release of their loved ones.
Source: Naharnet
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