Hamas has accepted a US proposal to begin talks on releasing Israeli captives, including soldiers and men, 16 days after the first phase of an agreement aimed at ending the war on Gaza, a senior Hamas source told Reuters on Saturday.
The Palestinian group has dropped a demand that Israel first commit to a permanent ceasefire before signing the agreement, and it would allow negotiations to achieve that throughout the six-week first phase. The source told Reuters on the condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
At the same time, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 11 Palestinians in several areas in Gaza City and a UNRWA warehouse in the Maghazi and Nuseirat refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip.
Local sources told Wafa that nine civilians were killed after Israeli forces bombed a home and a warehouse.
