A senior Hamas official has shared with the BBC a list of 34 hostages the Palestinian group says it is willing to release in the first phase of a potential ceasefire deal with Israel.
It is unclear how many hostages survived.
Among those named are 10 female and 11 elderly male hostages aged between 50 and 85, as well as young children whom Hamas previously said were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
The list also includes numerous hostages who Hamas says are ill.
Reports from Hamas-run Gaza said Israeli airstrikes killed more than 100 people over the weekend.
The Israeli prime minister’s office denied reports that Hamas had given Israel a list of hostages.
Ceasefire talks resumed in Doha, Qatar, over the weekend, but the talks do not yet appear to have made significant progress.
A Hamas official told the Reuters news agency that any deal to return the Israeli hostages would depend on an agreement for Israel to withdraw from Gaza and a permanent ceasefire or an end to the war.
“However, so far the occupation has remained stubborn about the agreement on the issue of ceasefire and withdrawal and has not taken any step forward,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Earlier, Hamas released a video of 19-year-old Israeli prisoner Liri Albag calling on his government to come to an agreement.
She was captured along with six other female conscripts at the Nahal Oz military base on the Gaza border during a Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
That day, Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Israel’s military campaign to destroy Hamas has killed at least 45,805 people in Gaza by Saturday, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.
The same source said 88 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, while on Sunday the Reuters news agency quoted health sources as saying another 17 were killed in four separate Israeli strikes on the area.
Israel’s military said Sunday that its air force struck more than 100 “terrorist” sites across the Gaza Strip over the weekend, killing dozens of Hamas militants.
