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Hamas Needs to Find 40 ‘Missing’ Hostages to Extend Truce: Qatari PM

Israel has signaled it would be open to extending the ceasefire on a day-by-day basis, providing Hamas frees 10 hostages per day.

People wave flags and cheer as a second helicopter with Israeli hostages released earlier by Hamas lands

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By AJ McDougall

As many as 40 Israeli women and children are being held hostage in Gaza by groups other than Hamas—and the militant group will need to account for them in order to extend its brief ceasefire with Israel, Qatar’s prime minister told the Financial Times on Sunday.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the newspaper that the fragile truce, which was brokered by Qatar, could continue should Hamas use the pause to track down the other hostages. There would have to be “proof” that the group, which also governs the Gaza Strip, had found and could release those hostages, the prime minister added.

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