Palestinian group Hamas, responsible for the surprise attacks on Israel on October 7 by firing over "thousands of rockets", has offered to release all hostages on a condition, as per reports.

An NBC News report stated that a senior Hamas official told the news agency that the armed group was willing to release all civilian hostages immediately if Israel stopped bombarding the campaign of Gaza.

The report stated that the Hamas official was ready to free all hostages within an hour if the Israeli forces aborted their military offensives in the Gaza Strip.

The armed group's condition to release civilian hostages came shortly after an air strike killed hundreds of people at a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday in the Hamas-run enclave. Israel's military denied responsibility for an attack on a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, saying military intelligence suggested the hospital was hit by a failed rocket launch by the enclave's Palestinian Islamic Jihad military group.

"Following an analysis by the IDF's operational systems, a barrage of rockets was launched toward Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit," Israel Defense Forces shared on X.

"According to intelligence information from a number of sources we have, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organisation is responsible for the failed rocket launch that hit the hospital," IDF added.

The local authorities, as per reports, said that at least 300 people were killed in the Israeli strike on the hospital, while a Gaza Health Ministry official told news agency Reuters that at least 500 people were killed and injured.

A Palestinian official referred to this attack at the hospital as a "massacre" and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning following a deadly air strike on a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds of people.

"What is taking place is genocide. We call on the international community to intervene immediately to stop this massacre. Silence is no longer acceptable," a statement by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation read in response to Israel's attack.