CAIRO, November 26. /TASS/. The Palestinian radical movement Hamas has said it is ready to extend the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip.

"Hamas wants to extend the ceasefire after the four-day period expires and is making efforts toward this by means of releasing more hostages than agreed upon under the humanitarian truce deal," it wrote on its Telegram channel.

The Lebanon 24 news portal said earlier, citied a source close to the Arab mediators at the Doha talks, that Hamas is ready to extend the prisoner exchange deal with Israel for two to four more days.

Senior Hamas official Basem Naim told TASS on Friday that the movement’s goal is a humanitarian truce and expressed the hope that the humanitarian pause will be extended.

Hamas announced on November 22 that an agreement on a four-day humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip had been reached through the mediation of Qatar and Egypt. The agreement stipulates the release of 50 women and children under the age of 19 who are held in Gaza in exchange for the release of 150 women and children under the age of 19 from Israeli prisons.

A four-day ceasefire came into force in the Gaza Strip from 8:00 a.m. local time (5:00 a.m. GMT) on November 24.