Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Keesby.

Political pressure is mounting on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nesin Yahoo to sign off on a deal to get a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict.

Today Israel's opposition leader Yayilapeid demanded an immediate ceasefire accusing the

Prime Minister of trying to sabotage negotiations.

referring to the remaining hostages he told Mr Nesignardahu to agree to a deal before they all die and within the

past couple of hours a senior Biden administration official has also

criticized reported comments made by Mr Netagnahu,

accusing him of making statements that are not constructive to getting a deal.

Meanwhile, in the early hours of this morning the bodies of six hostages snatched during the

Hamas attacks on Israel on October the 7th were recovered by Israeli forces from the southern

Gazan city of Khan Yunnis four of the men were from the southern garden city of Khan Yunnis. Four of the men were from the same community

in Kibbutz near Oz. Around a hundred hostages are still being held by Hamas, considered a terror organization by many Western states, including

80-year-old peace activist Gaddy Moses, who is also from Cabotz near Oz. I've been speaking to his niece Ephrat Macchakawa

and I asked her if she knew any of the men that had been named overnight.

Oh yes we woke up to a very, very sad morning.

I actually know all the four of them.

Heim Perry is the father of one of my best friends from Kibbutzny Oz.

Max Geer as well, his son I know very well and his daughter-in-law.

Alex and Mundar were friends of my parents and our friends of my family are actually

family of my family and the numbers and the pain, the understanding that this atrocity of October 7th actually happened and we lost so many beloved ones is beyond

imagination it is so hard to grasp so much sorrow at once.

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