Mediators have ramped up efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, in the hope of heading off an Israeli assault on the Gaza city of Rafah where more than a million displaced people are sheltering at the southern edge of the enclave.
Israel says it will attack the city if no truce agreement is reached soon.
The United States has called on its close ally not to do so, warning of vast civilian casualties if an assault on the city goes ahead.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met Egyptian mediators in Cairo to discuss a truce this past week on his first visit since December.
Israel is now expected to participate in talks this weekend in Paris with US, Egyptian and Qatari mediators.
Two Egyptian security sources confirmed that Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel would head on Friday to Paris for the talks with the Israelis, after wrapping up talks with Hamas chief Haniyeh on Thursday.
Israel has not publicly commented on the Paris talks.
Gaza health authorities say 160 people have been hurt in Israeli military strikes in the past day. (AP PHOTO)
The Hamas official, who asked not to be identified, said the militant group did not offer any new proposal at the talks with Egyptian representatives but was waiting to see what the mediators brought back from their upcoming talks with the Israeli side.
"We discussed our proposal with them (Egyptian officials) and we are going to wait until they return from Paris," the Hamas representative said.
The last time similar talks were held in Paris, at the start of February, they produced an outline for the first extended ceasefire of the war, approved by Israel and the US.
Hamas responded with a counterproposal, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then rejected as "delusional".
Hamas, which is still believed to be holding more than 100 hostages seized in the October 7 attack on Israel that precipitated the war, says it will free them only as part of a truce that ends with an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Israel says it will not pull out until Hamas is eradicated.
Late on Thursday, Netanyahu presented his security cabinet with an official plan for Gaza once the fighting stops.
He emphasised that Israel expects to maintain security control over the enclave after destroying Hamas, and also sees no role for there for the Palestinian Authority (PA) based in the West Bank.
The US favours a role for a reformed PA.
Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip overnight, residents and health officials said.
The Gaza health ministry said 104 people had been killed and 160 others were wounded in Israeli military strikes in the past 24 hours.
In Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's 2.3 million people are sheltering, an Israeli air strike on a house killed 10 people.
Several other air strikes hit throughout the city, worsening fears by the displaced people of expanded Israeli ground operations.
At a morgue in Rafah, a family knelt by the body of their child, killed by overnight Israeli strikes.
They tenderly touched and stroked the small body through a shroud.
Air strikes also killed civilians overnight in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, one of the few other areas yet to be stormed by Israeli forces.
At least 29,514 Palestinians have been killed and 69,616 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Israel launched its months-long military campaign after militants from Hamas-ruled Gaza killed 1200 people and took 253 hostages in southern Israel on October 7.
In a summary of its operations in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the Israeli military said it had killed dozens of militants, located weapons and destroyed infrastructure in Khan Younis, western Khan Younis, central Gaza and Zaytoun in the north, where it also uncovered tunnel shafts.
