Israel and Hamas appeared this close to a deal Tuesday to free 50 women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a cease-fire and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners, reports said.

More than a month after kidnapping about 240 people during its Oct. 7 deadly attack on Israel, the Palestinian terror group Hamas has reportedly agreed to begin releasing the dozens of captives as early as Thursday in exchange for a days-long pause in the war that has devastated the Palestinian enclave.

The hostages freed under the pitched deal would be 30 children, eight mothers and 12 other women, Israeli Channel 12 reported.

The development came as Al Quds Brigade, the militant arm of the Palestinian terror group Islamic Jihad, said a female hostage it had been holding died.

“We previously expressed our willingness to release her for humanitarian reasons, but the enemy was stalling and this led to her death,” the terrorists said on their Telegram channel, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The freeing of some of the other hostages would occur in waves over four days during the cease-fire — and Israel would simultaneously free Palestinian women and minors in its custody under the deal, according to reports.

No Palestinian murderers would be freed, the outlets said.

US officials have said they are hoping that Abigail Mor Idan, a 3-year-old American girl whose parents were killed Oct. 7, would be among the children included in those freed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu huddled with his war cabinet and other top government officials throughout the day to try to peddle the plan, multiple outlets said.

The PM urged his government to back the deal, saying the move was “a difficult decision, but it’s a right decision,” reports said.

Netanyahu’s office said the process would first involve the terrorists beginning to release some of the women and children to the Red Cross. The kidnap victims would then be taken into custody by Israel Defense Forces.

The hostages then would have to undergo a medical check before being taken to one of five isolated hospitals in Israel to meet with their families.

The planned process coincided with a statement from US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, who told reporters Tuesday that the hostages will need “immediate medical attention” given the “abhorrent” conditions of their captivity.

The next stage would involve medical and military staff speaking with the hostages to debrief them on what occurred to them and other hostages after Oct. 7. The former hostages would then speak with Israeli security officials on the situation.

The deal — which was pitched with the help of Qatar’s government — also would include Hamas working to locate about 10 additional children kidnapped from Israel who are believed to be among the 30 taken by the Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.

But Netanyahu warned that the cease-fire would only be temporary, regardless of any deal, as he reiterated his vow to see the end of Hamas.

“I would like to make it clear here again: The war continues, the war will continue until we achieve all of our goals: to eliminate Hamas, to return all our hostages, to ensure that the day after Hamas, Gaza will no longer be a threat to Israel, there will be no element in it that supports terrorism, that educates its children to terror , and who threaten the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said in a statement. 

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Ahead of the hostage negotiations, Israeli soldiers transferred detained Palestinians on Tuesday out of the Gaza Strip. It is unclear if those transferred would be among the prisoners released in the hostage negotiations.

The deal also is designed to create the first major pause in the war that has killed more than 1,200 people in the Jewish state and more than a reported 11,500 others in Gaza, an unprecedented loss of life in the decades of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

It would come as a relief to those sheltering in Gaza after Israel began an all-out bombardment and ground assault into the Palestinian enclave, shutting down hospitals and evacuating civilians to the south.

On Monday, injured Palestinians were evacuated from the struggling Indonesian hospital to the Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

The cease-fire deal will likely be coordinated with further evacuations out of north Gaza, which holds several of Hamas’ headquarters, along with more aid trucks to be received by hospitals.