CAIRO, October 28. /TASS/. The leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, has claimed that Hamas is ready to strike a deal in order to exchange all the Palestinians held in Israeli prisons for all the hostages captured by the radicals in their operation in Israel.

"We [Hamas] are ready to immediately seal a deal to swap all the [Israeli hostages] we are holding for all the Palestinian captives [in Israeli prisons]," said Sinwar, cited by the Al Hadath television channel.