Hamas leader Ismail Haniya is expected to travel to Egypt on Wednesday for talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and a prisoner exchange with Israel, a source in the Palestinian Islamist movement said today.

Haniya, who is based in Qatar, will head a “high-level” Hamas delegation to Egypt, where he will hold talks with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, “to stop aggression and war in order to prepare an agreement to release prisoners to end the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip,” the source told AFP.

At the same time, the spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf al-Kindra, announced that at least 100 Palestinians were killed in Tuesday’s Israeli attacks on Gaza, and hundreds more were injured.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group released video on Tuesday showing two Israeli hostages, still alive, among the 129 still held in the Gaza Strip after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israeli soil, pleading for their release. their.

In the video posted by the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the group, on their Telegram account, the two men appear one after the other and call for increased pressure on the Israeli authorities to enable their release.