About half of the roughly 100 hostages held in the Gaza Strip since last year are still alive, Israeli media have quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying. Netanyahu spoke about this during a meeting of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in Jerusalem, according to media reports on Sunday. There was no official confirmation of this, as it was a closed session. Terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups killed more than 1,200 people in Israel on October 7 and took about 250 as hostage to the Gaza, triggering the ongoing war. During a ceasefire at the…