Hamas has said said it had offered to hand over the bodies of a mother and her two sons — one of them a baby — in talks to extend a now-expired temporary truce in Gaza, AFP reports.

Earlier this week, Hamas’s armed wing announced that Shiri Bibas, her 10-month-old son Kfir and his four-year-old brother Ariel had been killed in an Israeli bombing before the now-lapsed truce went into effect — a claim Israel’s military has said it is investigating, but has yet to confirm.

“Throughout the night, indirect negotiations unfolded to extend the truce,” the Palestinian group said in a statement.

“Hamas also offered to transfer the Bibas family’s bodies and release their father for their burial, along with two Zionist detainees,” it added. Israeli authorities “remained unresponsive”, it said.