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Hamas has released a video showing a 19-year-old Israeli prisoner, amid indirect talks between the group and Israel on a ceasefire and the release of people in Qatar.
The photos show Liri Albag calling on the Israeli government to implement the agreement.
She was captured along with six other female soldiers at the Nahal Oz military base on the Gaza border during a Hamas attack in October 2023. Five of them are still in captivity.
The announcement of the new talks came as Israel stepped up its attacks on Gaza, with the Hamas-run health ministry saying on Sunday that 88 people had been killed in bombings in the past 24 hours.
One attack on a house in Gaza City on Saturday killed 11 people, including seven children, according to the Gaza Public Security Agency.
The images show people searching through the remains of survivors and the bodies of the dead covered in cloth.
“A big explosion woke us up. Everything was shaking,” neighbor Ahmed Mussa told AFP.
“It was home to children, women. There was no one wanted or threatened.”
The Israeli army said on Sunday that it had defeated more than 100 “terrorists” in the Gaza Strip in the past two days and had “eliminated many Hamas terrorists”.
Responding to the video showing their daughter, Liri Albag’s parents said it broke their hearts and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “make decisions as if it were your own children”.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents the hostages’ families, said the sign of life from Liri was “brutal and irrefutable evidence of the urgency to bring all the hostages home”.
Calling the parents of Lira Albag, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that his country’s representatives will remain at the negotiating table until all the hostages return home.
Israeli officials have previously described the release of such Hamas videos as psychological warfare.
Last month a Palestinian official told the BBC that negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of hostages had endedbut major issues still need to be resolved.
On Sunday, Israel’s military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, the latest in a series of attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi movement.
The Houthis said they fired “hypersonic ballistic missiles” at a power plant near the Israeli city of Haifa. The group says it began targeting shipping in the Red Sea and firing projectiles at Israel in response to Israeli military actions in Gaza.
The current war began when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing nearly 1,200 people and injuring 251 others.
Israel’s crackdown on Hamas has killed more than 45,800 people, according to Hamas’s regional health ministry.
On Saturday, Gaza’s health ministry said all three public hospitals in northern Gaza were out of service and would be “destroyed” by Israeli forces.
Israeli forces have blockaded areas of northern Gaza since October, with the UN saying the area is “virtually” encircled as the Israeli army severely restricts access to aid in the area where an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people remain. .
At the end of last month the Israeli army forced patients and medical workers to leave the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia, saying that the place was a “stronghold of Hamas terrorists”. after arresting the director of the hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya.
It also said it helped transfer some medical staff and patients to a nearby Indonesian hospital. But Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday that the hospital was out of service, along with the hospital in Beit Hanoun.
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has also called for the closure of hospitals and health professionals. “The people of Gaza need access to medical care,” he said.
Israel says its forces operate in accordance with international law and do not target civilians.
On Saturday, the Biden administration said it was plans to sell $8bn (£6.4bn) worth of weapons to Israel. The weapons, which require approval by the US House and Senate committees, include missiles, ammunition and other weapons.
The move comes just two days before Biden leaves office and Donald Trump takes over as president.
Washington has consistently refused to freeze military aid to Israel because of the number of civilians killed in Gaza.
