Armistice talks between Israel and Hamas will resume in Cairo on Sunday, Egypt’s Al Qahera news television said on Saturday, citing security sources, in the latest attempt to suspend talks after nearly six months of war in the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli official told Reuters that Israel would send a delegation to Cairo on Sunday. However, a Hamas official told Reuters the group would first wait for word from Cairo mediators on the outcome of talks with Israel.

With the mediation of Qatar and Egypt, the warring parties have stepped up negotiations and asked Israel to suspend its offensive for six weeks in exchange for the release of 40 of the 130 hostages still held by Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.

Hamas seeks to exploit any deal to end the fighting and withdraw Israeli forces. Israel has ruled out that possibility and said it would eventually resume efforts to dismantle Hamas’s governance and military capabilities.

Hamas also wants hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled Gaza City and surrounding areas during the first phase of the war to return to the north. An Israeli official said Israel was willing to discuss allowing only “some” of the displaced people to return.

More than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to the region’s health authorities.

The war broke out after Hamas militants breached the border and rampaged through southern Israeli communities, killing 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages, according to Israeli statistics.

Israel continued its aerial and ground bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing 82 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, the Gaza Strip’s health ministry said, as fighting raged around Gaza City’s main Al Shifa hospital.

The ministry added that Israeli forces taking control of the hospital cordoned off 107 patients at the Human Resources Ministry for several days without water, electricity or medicine and refused all calls to evacuate them.

Armed factions of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said their fighters continued to battle Israeli forces around the largest medical facility in the pre-war Gaza Strip, one of the few in northern Gaza that was partially operational before the latest fighting. One of the medical facilities.

The Israeli military said troops operating in Shifa killed three armed Hamas commanders inside two buildings of a medical facility. The military said troops found sniper rifles, AK-47s, magazines and grenades during the activity.

Israel says it killed and detained hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in the attack on Shifa. Hamas and medical personnel deny any armed presence at medical facilities and accuse Israel of killing and arresting civilians.