Hamas offers exchange of women, children, elderly hostages for up to 1,000 prisoners

Proposal, which Netanyahu rejects as ‘ridiculous,’ would include release of female soldiers in first stage, leading up to permanent deal to end war, see IDF withdraw from Gaza. Hamas has presented a Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators and the US that includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for freedom for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom are serving life sentences, according to a proposal seen by Reuters. A senior Israeli official told the Walla news site that Hamas’s demands were still too high, but “there is something to work with.”