Israeli cabinet to consider possible deal for release of hostages held by Hamas

Israel’s war cabinet is to meet to consider a possible deal on the release of hostages held by Hamas (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel’s cabinet was to convene Tuesday to consider a possible deal for the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas, as troops battled Palestinian militants in an urban refugee camp in northern Gaza and around hospitals overcrowded with patients and sheltering families.

Details of any deal, worked out through international mediators, were not immediately known.