Hamas released a video showing a 19-year-old Israeli prisoner as indirect talks between the group and Israel continue in Qatar on a ceasefire and the release of the hostages.
The video shows Liri Albag calling on the Israeli government to reach an agreement.
She was taken hostage along with six other female conscripts at the Nahal Oz military base on the Gaza border during a Hamas attack in October 2023. Five remain in captivity.
The announcement of the renegotiations came as Israel stepped up attacks on Gaza, with Palestinian rescuers saying more than 30 people were killed in the bombing on Saturday.
On Saturday, an attack on a house in Gaza City killed 11 people, including seven children, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defense Agency.
Pictures show residents searching the rubble for survivors and the bodies of the dead wrapped in shrouds.
“We were woken up by a huge explosion. Everything was shaking,” neighbor Ahmed Mussa told AFP.
“It was a home for children, women. There was no one wanted or anyone who posed a threat.”
Israel’s military said Sunday it had hit more than 100 “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip in the past two days and “eliminated dozens of Hamas terrorists.”
Responding to the video of their daughter, Liri Albag’s parents said they were heartbroken and appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “make decisions as if your own children were there.”
The headquarters of the Forum for Hostages and Missing Families, which represents the families of the hostages, said the sign of life from Liri was “a stark and undeniable proof of the urgency of returning all hostages home.”
In a call to Lira Albag’s parents, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said his country’s delegation would remain at the negotiating table until all the hostages returned home.
Israeli officials have previously described the release of such videos by Hamas as psychological warfare.
Last month, a senior Palestinian official told the BBC talks on reaching a truce and releasing the hostages are mostly overbut key issues still had to be overcome.
On Sunday, Israel’s military said it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, the latest in a series of such attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi movement.
The Houthis said they fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” at a power plant near the Israeli city of Haifa. The group says it has begun targeting ships in the Red Sea and firing missiles at Israel in response to Israeli military actions in Gaza.
The current war began when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Israel’s military campaign to destroy Hamas has killed more than 45,700 people, according to the Hamas-run territorial health ministry.
On Saturday, Gaza’s health ministry said all three government hospitals in northern Gaza were completely out of order and had been “destroyed” by the Israeli army.
The Israeli military has imposed a blockade on parts of the northern Gaza Strip since October, and the UN has said the area is under “almost total siege” as Israeli forces severely restrict access to aid supplies to the area, where an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people remain.
At the end of last month, the Israeli army forced patients and medical staff to leave the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, saying that the facility was a “Hamas terrorist stronghold” and the director of the Hussam Abu Safiya hospital was arrested.
It is said to have facilitated the transfer of some medical staff and patients to a nearby Indonesian hospital. But Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday that that hospital had also been decommissioned, along with the Beit Hanoun hospital.
The head of the World Health Organization, dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus once again called for an end to attacks on hospitals and healthcare workers. “People in Gaza need access to health care,” he said.
Israel says its forces operate in accordance with international law and do not target civilians.
On Saturday, the Biden administration said it did is planning an $8bn (£6.4bn) arms sale to Israel.. The arms shipment, which requires the approval of committees of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, includes missiles, grenades and other ammunition.
The move comes just over two weeks before Biden leaves office and Donald Trump takes over as president.
Washington has consistently rejected calls to end military aid to Israel because of the number of civilians killed in Gaza.
