BEIRUT, November 13. /TASS/. Unimpeded access of humanitarian aide to the Gaza Strip is one of the conditions for the release of hostages who were taken during the attack on Israel, Osama Hamdan, a Hamas senior official, said on Sunday.

"The release of hostages is a humanitarian matter but it should be settled by both sides, i.e. humanitarian aid should unimpededly reach Gaza," he was quoted as saying on the radical movement’s Telegram channel.