An informed source close to the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" revealed to Al Jazeera Network today, Thursday, that there is talk about parties mediating to conduct an initial prisoner exchange deal between the movement and the Israeli occupation.

According to the source, international and regional parties are contributing to the completion of the deal, the proposed terms of which include the movement’s release of child, elderly, and foreign prisoners in exchange for the release of all women and children prisoners in the occupation prisons.

The terms also stipulate - according to the same source - the entry of sufficient quantities of humanitarian aid and relief materials into the Gaza Strip.

The source reported that the Israeli occupation was very strict regarding the issue of bringing fuel in, while the movement insisted on bringing it in, and it was agreed that it would allow the entry of sufficient quantities designated for hospitals.

In order to implement the terms of this deal, the occupation demanded the provision of sufficient data on the movement’s prisoners, while Hamas demanded a ceasefire for a period that may extend to a week to allow the required data to be collected about its prisoners and then the exchange process to take place.

The head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, announced a few days ago that the movement was ready to immediately implement an exchange deal for all prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons in exchange for prisoners held by the resistance.

Al-Sinwar called on the bodies and institutions working in the field of prisoners to consider themselves in permanent session and to prepare lists of the names of male and female prisoners held by the occupation without exception in preparation for developments in the next stage.

On the Israeli side, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had indicated that he had discussed in the War Council a proposal to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of prisoners in the Gaza Strip, stressing that expanding the ground operation does not contradict Al-Qassam’s idea of liberating prisoners.

Al-Qassam had previously announced that it had captured more than 200 Israelis during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in the Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, Israel detains about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners, including dozens who have spent more than 20 years in detention, and more than a thousand are detained under administrative detention without being tried or formally charged.