Hamas says it will allow hostage aid if Israel halts airstrikes, opens permanent humanitarian corridors
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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Hamas says it will coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid to hostages it holds in Gaza, if Israel meets certain conditions.
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| 0:44.6 | Today, Hamas says it will allow aid for hostages if Israel stops, airstrikes, and more. Plus, |
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| 1:00.2 | Hamas said yesterday it was prepared to coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid to hostages |
| 1:04.6 | it holds in Gaza if Israel meets certain conditions. |
| 1:08.1 | Hamas said any coordination with the Red Cross depends on Israel permanently |
| 1:11.6 | opening humanitarian corridors and halting airstrikes during the distribution of aid. |
| 1:16.2 | According to Israeli officials, 50 hostages now remain in Gaza, only 20 of whom are believed to be |
| 1:21.6 | alive. Hamas so far has barred humanitarian organizations from having any kind of access to the |
| 1:27.1 | hostages and families |
| 1:28.4 | have little knowledge of their conditions. Amos recently released video of one Israeli hostage |
| 1:33.0 | who is skeletally thin and shown digging a hole that he says in the video is for his own grave. |
| 1:38.8 | Meanwhile, Gaza's health ministry says, six more people died of starvation or malnutrition in the |
| 1:43.9 | enclave over the past 24 hours. |
| 1:46.1 | The recent deaths raised the toll from what international humanitarian agencies say |
| 1:49.7 | may be a developing famine to 175, according to the ministry. |
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