One from Hamas leaders, Saleh Al-Arouri, said this Saturday, speaking to the Al Jazeera network, that he did notthere are to be new exchanges of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners without a full ceasefire and the release of all Palestinian prisoners.

Al-Aruri made it clear that in order for the remaining Israeli hostages to be released there must first be a ceasefire from the Israeli side and let them all be freed the (in total thousands) Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons.

According to the Hamas leadership, the remaining hostages are all either Israeli soldiers or men who have served in the Israeli armed forces. “Israel insists we still have women and children, although we have made it clear that we have surrendered all the women and children in our possession and now only men and soldiers remain. The adults we have, from our perspective, have served in the military, and some of them are still in the reserves,” Aruri said.

According to what he said, Hamas is willing to agree to body swaps, but it needs time “to retrieve the bodies of Israelis, some of whom were killed in Israel’s shelling of Gaza.”

Israel threatens to extend the war in southern Gaza after the “wreck” with Hamas in talks in Qatar to extend the truce. The possibility of a ground attack on southern Gaza, which Israeli media characterize as expected, will be significant escalation war’s.

The Israeli Defense Minister Joab Gallant announced that the IDF was striking areas of Gaza “which they had not yet struck since the beginning of the war” warning senior Hamas commanders in the southern part of the Strip, the Times of Israel reports.

“In the last two days we have been operating in areas where we did not operate in the last month and this will intensify. This action will reach every region that is needed. Let’s go for the complete elimination of the Hamas organization”Gallant said, speaking to reservists near the Gaza border.