Israel and Hamas are near a deal to release 70 Israeli women and kids held hostage by the terrorists in exchange for some Palestinian prisoners and a five-day truce, officials said Tuesday. 

“I believe it’s going to happen,” President Biden told reporters at the White House, adding when asked to give a “message for the families” of the hostages, “Hang in there, we’re coming.”

An agreement could be announced within days once the final details are ironed out, a high-ranking Israeli official told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.

“The general outline of the deal is understood,” said the official, who requested anonymity.

While Israel has asked for the release of all 100 women and children currently held hostage, the number is likely to be smaller, or about 70 women and children, according to a statement from a Hamas rep.

Among the kidnapped are nine American citizens and a legal permanent US resident, but US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters at the White House on Monday, “I cannot look you in the eye and tell you how many of those hostages are still alive.”

Any deal faces complications, officials with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

For example, it’s not exactly clear who Hamas is holding as opposed to other militant groups in Gaza such as Islamic Jihad, so Israel is still sorting out who Hamas might be able to release, the sources said. 

As far as the possible prisoner swap, Israel also wants make sure that none of the prisoners released are connected to Hamas, sources said. 

Another complication involves the fact that there have been rolling communication blackouts in Gaza, so it can take hours or even days for Hamas leaders in Gaza to get guidance on the negotiations from other Hamas bigs in Qatar, sources said.

Leaders of the terror organization on Monday said they told Qatari mediators they were ready to release up to 70 women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day truce with Israel, stipulating that the brief cease-fire would have to allow for humanitarian relief to enter Gaza.

“Last week there was an effort from the Qatari brothers to release the enemy captives from women and children, in return for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women detained by the enemy,” Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, said in an audio recording posted on the group’s Telegram channel.

Ubaida argued Israel was “procrastinating and evading” the cost of the prisoner exchange.

“The truce should include a complete cease-fire and allow aid and humanitarian relief everywhere in the Gaza Strip,” he added.

Israel-Hamas war: How we got here

2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.

2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.

2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.

2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.

2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli towns.

Terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”

The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — reported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday refuted the claims that his office is slowing down the negotiations, saying he is “working relentlessly for the release of the hostages.”

But with more than a month passing since the abductions, the families of those kidnapped began a five-day march Tuesday from Tel Aviv to Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem to demand he speed up the negotiations. 

“I don’t feel like we are in good hands. We don’t feel like we get enough information,” said Amit Zach, the nephew of 72-year-old hostage Adina Moshe, who is taking part in the 40-mile march.

“I don’t have a solution, but it’s not my job to get a solution. It’s my job to demand my family back,” he added.

Yuval Haran, who has seven relatives who were taken hostage by Hamas, said his loved ones “don’t have time any more” as the war between Israel and the terrorist group continues to heat up. 

He said it is up to him and the other families of the hostages to advocate for a speedy release of their loved ones. 

“For the past 39 days, we’ve been doing everything we can, and I decided I can’t sit around any more,” he told the Guardian. “I can’t just stay at home and sit and be on my phone and on my computer — I need to do something.”

Hamas took about 240 hostages during its horrifying Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel, in which it killed more than 1,200 people, mainly civilians and young people enjoying an outdoor musical festival.

As a result, Israel declared war and has relentlessly bombarded Gaza ever since, killing at least a reported 11,000 people and displacing over 1.6 million from their homes.

The number of Palestinian prisoners who would be released remains unclear, though at least 120 currently are imprisoned, according to an Arab official who spoke with the Washington Post.

The Israeli official who revealed a possible deal to the outlet stressed that the Jewish country’s leaders are committed to freeing all Israelis currently held hostage, who they believe also include about 90 male civilians and a small number of soldiers.

“We want as many as possible, as quickly as possible, and no one stays behind,” he said.

Hamas has insisted to Qatar that it only seized Israeli soldiers, a claim that Israeli officials have rejected.

While Hamas holds the “vast majority” of the captives, some are kept by other groups, though Hamas has the power to negotiate for the release of all of them.

A smaller group called Palestinian Islamic Jihad holds about 35 hostages, and a militia known as the “shabiha,” as well as other smaller groups, hold a few dozen others, the Israeli official said.

On Sunday, Netanyahu had said there “could be” a potential deal to release some of the hostages.

When asked about the potential deal on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Netanyahu said, “There could be, but I think the less I saw about it, the more I’ll increase the chances that it materializes.”

Additional reporting by Steven Nelson and Post wires