AROUND 50 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza could be released within days.

America and Israel have been working for weeks with Qatar’s government — which speaks to the terrorist group — to try to arrange it.

Officials are confident they will allow women and children to go in return for a ceasefire lasting three to five days.

US president Joe Biden was asked yesterday if an agreement was near.

He said: “I believe so . . . yes.”

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Around 240 hostages were taken on October 7.

Four have been released and a female soldier was rescued.

The bodies of two others were found by Israeli soldiers.

To mark World Children’s Day yesterday, Israel’s official X/Twitter account echoed The Sun’s front page this month — with names and photos of all 32 kids being held — to call for the release of child hostages.

Relatives of the hostages yesterday spoke of their anguish at a press conference at the Israeli embassy in London.

Iris Haim, whose 28-year-old son Yotam was kidnapped, urged Britain to “fight this new evil” as Winston Churchill did with Hitler.