Hamas told factions including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front and the Popular Resistance Committees to prepare information such as whether their captives were alive or dead, the sources told AFP.

A total of 96 Israeli captives, out of 250 captured by various resistance groups on 7 October 2023, remain in captivity with various Palestinian factions in Gaza.

This figure includes 34 captives killed by Israeli bombardment of the strip.

A one-week truce in November 2023 saw dozens of Israeli captives exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Since then, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to sign any truce deals with Hamas, opting to forge ahead with his genocidal war on Gaza.

On Saturday, Qatar's prime minister said that there was renewed "momentum" for a ceasefire and captive-prisoners swap deal following the election of Donald Trump in the United States.

A Hamas source told AFP there had been "intensified contacts" recently between Hamas and Qatari, Egyptian and Turkish mediators.

The same source called on Israel to halt its military campaign, saying the presence of its forces made it "difficult to reach all the captive groups to know the details of the living and dead prisoners."

Khalil Al-Hayya, the deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, left Cairo on Sunday after holding talks with Egyptian officials on a possible ceasefire deal.