Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayahu on Monday vowed to bring back all hostages, "living and dead", as rescuers in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people.

Netanyahu's remarks came after a Palestinian source said that mediators proposed a 70-day ceasefire and the release of 10 Israeli hostages alongside some Palestinian prisoners, though US envoy Steve Witkoff later said Hamas had not agreed to a proposed deal.

"If we don't achieve it today, we will achieve it tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow. We are not giving up," Netanyahu said of the duty to free the captives.

"We intend to bring them all back, the living and the dead," he added, but made no mention of a proposed deal.

His remarks came after a Hamas source said on Monday that the group had accepted a ceasefire proposal that would see 10 captives released.

A spokesman for Witkoff nonetheless told AFP that he disputed Hamas's claim that the group had agreed to his proposed deal and quoted the envoy as saying "What I have seen from Hamas is disappointing and completely unacceptable."

Fighting meanwhile raged in Gaza, where civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that an early-morning Israeli........

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