“Hostages who are alive will end up dead. Hostages who are dead might be lost,” Dickmann told AFP at a rally in Jerusalem. “We have to act now.”
Umm Ibrahim Abu Sultan, a resident of Gaza City now living in Khan Yunis after being displaced, said that she had “lost everything” in the war.
“I am anxiously awaiting the truce. I will cry for days on end,” said the mother of five.
Israeli media and sources close to the talks said the first phase of a deal would see 33 Israeli hostages freed, while two Palestinian sources close to Hamas told AFP that Israel would release about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
Israeli media also reported Tuesday that under the proposed deal, Israel would be allowed to maintain a buffer zone inside Gaza during the implementation of the first phase.
Hamas said it hoped for a “clear and comprehensive agreement”, adding it had informed other Palestinian factions of the “progress made”.
Successive rounds of negotiations last year failed to end the deadliest war in Gaza’s history.
On Tuesday, a far-right member of Netanyahu’s government, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, said he opposed what he described as a “disastrous deal”.
The day before, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, also a far-right cabinet member, had warned he too would oppose any agreement to stop the war.
Saar, however, said Tuesday he believed “that if we will achieve this hostage deal we will have a majority in this government that will support the agreement”.
Air strikes
Among the sticking points in the talks have been disagreements over the permanence of any ceasefire, the scale of humanitarian aid for the Palestinian territory and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
Netanyahu has firmly rejected a full withdrawal from Gaza and has opposed any Palestinian governance of the territory.
