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The negotiations to free 230 hostages, including children and the elderly, have been ongoing since Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist arrack killed more than 1,000 Israeli civilians.

Earlier talks, mediated by Qatar, resulted in the releases of four hostages, two Americans and two elderly women, on two separate days.

“We would support humanitarian pauses for stuff getting in, as well as for people getting out,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday.

Jason Straziuso, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which acted as an intermediary in the first two hostage releases, said enormous levels of trust would be needed for a large number of captives to be freed.

After Israel’s bombing and ground operations in Gaza intensified Friday night, a Hamas spokesman, Dr. Basem Naim, told NBC News on Saturday, “You can’t talk about negotiations while they are slaughtering our people.”

Later in the day, Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, said in a statement on the group’s website that it was willing to continue to negotiate.

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