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Hamas reportedly ready for a four-day extension as tensions rise between Israel and the US over strategy
The latest group of hostages held in Gaza was expected to be released in return for Palestinian prisoners being freed from Israeli jails on Wednesday, while intense efforts are under way to extend the current truce.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement said it had handed over several civilian hostages as part of an exchange deal, an apparent confirmation that not all the estimated 240 hostages seized in Hamas’s 7 October raid into Israel were being held by the same group.
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