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Hamas says it will release all civilian hostages if Israel stops bombing Gaza: Report

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 10/20/2023 5:05:33 AM

NEW DELHI, Oct 18: The Hamas Group, which launched an attack on Israel on October 7, has offered to release all hostages on a condition.

A senior Hamas official told NBC News that the armed group was willing to release all civilian hostages immediately if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza.

The report stated that the Hamas official was ready to free all hostages within an hour if the Israeli forces aborted their military offensives in the Gaza Strip.

The armed group's condition to release civilian hostages came shortly after an air strike killed hundreds of people at a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday in the Hamas-run enclave. Israel's military denied responsibility for an attack on a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, saying military intelligence suggested the hospital was hit by a failed rocket launch by the enclave's Palestinian Islamic Jihad military group.