Tehran, IRNA - Retired Israeli Major General Itzhak Brik has emphasized that Tel Aviv must reach an agreement with Hamas to prevent more deaths among Israeli prisoners held in Gaza.

Zionist sources quoted Brik as saying on Saturday that if Israel does not reach an agreement with Hamas, more prisoners will be killed in Gaza.

Reports show that families of the Israeli prisoners have made direct contact with Egyptian intelligence officials and have called for prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas after they became disappointed with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hundreds of relatives of Israeli captives held in Gaza protested last week in the center of the regime's capital Tel Aviv to demand their return.

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