CAIRO, November 14. /TASS/. Hamas states readiness release one hundred hostages kept in the Gaza Strip on condition of a ceasefire needed to identify the location of fifty of them, member of the movement’s Political Bureau Khalil al-Hayya said.

"The occupation [authorities] provided the list of one hundred names of hostages. We told intermediaries that we know [the location] of just fifty among them and we need the ceasefire to find the others held by different groups," the statement posted on the official Telegram channel of Hamas reads.

According to the Hamas version, the possibility of "releasing ten hostages every day during five days: is now being discussed."

The number of hostages held in the Gaza Strip is at least 242, the Israel Defense Forces said.