his mental well being but will still play for saracens. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. now, this is the youngest hostage taken on october 7th, and his four year old brother and mother. they re the bibas family and, today, hamas claimed that they had all been killed in an israeli airstrike. the israeli defense forces say they re investigating the claim from hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. it s thought there are still 161 israeli hostages in gaza, and the six day temporary truce is due to end today, though there are hopes that it could be extended. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is in tel aviv. well, tonight, the people of israel are waiting for more news about this hamas claim, which is unconfirmed. we had a statement from the extended natalie metcalf family saying they are waiting for the information to be confirmed are hopefully refuted by military members and thanking people here for their warm
a senior israeli government spokesman has told the bbc that a senior israeli government spokesman has told the bbc that the temporary truce will be extended by two days. the present deal was due to expire in the early hours of thursday but! if told me that ten hostages will be relieved each day in return for the release of palestinian prisoners. would be released. in the past couple of hours two further hostages taken from israel by hamas on the 7th of october have been released. they are two russian israeli women, aged 71 and 50. they were handed to the red cross. the israeli military say they are with idf special forces and our inside israeli territory. it s believed a second group of hostages has also been given to the red cross. this is the scene outside ofer prison. israel said it had released 30 prisoners from the resin. hamas, which the uk and us governments say is a terrorist organisation claimed that youngest israeli hostage, a ten month old baby, was killed in an