Israel and Hamas agree to extend temporary truce

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Mohammad Salem and Emily Rose GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement on Thursday to extend their six-day ceasefire by at least one more day to allow negotiators to keep working on deals to swap hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. The truce has allowed much needed humanitarian aid into Gaza after much of the coastal territory of 2.3 million was reduced to wasteland in response to a deadly rampage by Hamas militants into southern Israel on Oct. 7. "In light of the mediators' efforts to continue the process of releasing the hos...