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DOHA/GAZA - Qatari mediators have held urgent calls with Hamas officials to try to negotiate freedom for Israeli women and children seized by the militant group and held in Gaza in exchange for the release of 36 Palestinian women and children from Israel's prisons, a source briefed on the talks told Reuters.
Details about negotiations focusing on the release of 36 Palestinians from Israeli jails have not previously been reported. Egypt has been in close contact with Israel and Hamas to try to prevent further escalation in fighting between them and to ensure the protection of the Israeli hostages, two Egyptian security sources said.
There was no immediate response to requests for comment sent to Qatar's foreign ministry, Hamas or the U.S. State Department. Israel's prime minister's office said it did not wish to comment. Israel has responded with its heaviest ever bombardment of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 400 people, and is possibly contemplating a ground assault of the territory it abandoned nearly two decades ago.
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