Hamas confessed it couldn’t locate the 40 hostages needed to meet the terms of the first part of a three-phase, U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement with Israel. Negotiators have proposed a temporary six-week stop in fighting more than six months after the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. During the suggested pause, 40 Israeli hostages held in Gaza would be swapped for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, sources familiar with the negotiations said, according to CNN. Hamas’ inability to provide negotiators with a record of the remaining hostages while admitting they can’t account for their whereabouts …