Reuters reported on Sunday that some progress had been made towards reaching an agreement to release people held by Hamas in Gaza, citing the three main television news channels in Israel on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not discuss the details of any potential agreement, which according to Channel 12 News, would include the release of between 50 and 100 women, children and elderly people in phases during a three- to five-day cessation of fighting.

According to reports on news channels, whose sources were not mentioned, Israel will release Palestinian women and minors from its prisons, and will consider allowing fuel into Gaza, while reserving the right to resume fighting after the agreement.

Reuters quoted an Israeli army spokesman as saying, "Multiple efforts are being made to release detainees in Gaza."

For the second week in a row, thousands of demonstrators gathered, on Saturday evening, in front of the central military headquarters in Tel Aviv to express their frustration with the Israeli government’s management of the file of the kidnapped hostages in Gaza, and to urge it to work to release them immediately.

The demonstrators carried pictures of the kidnapped people and listened to speeches given by their family members, in the largest mass gathering in Israel since the Hamas attack on October 7, which resulted in the killing of about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, in addition to the kidnapping of 239 people, including children, women, and soldiers.

So far, Hamas has released four kidnappers, and Israeli forces rescued another hostage.

Israeli forces, locked in a war to eliminate Hamas after its deadly cross-border attack on October 7, clashed with Hamas militants throughout the night in and around Gaza City where Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, is located, Gaza residents said.