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Hamas says Israeli forces need to free all those re-arrested in the exchange deals, before entering any new prisoner swap discussions.
A prisoner swap involving almost 2000 people has been agreed between Houthis and government loyalists in Yemen.
Sixteen Lebanese servicemen captured by al-Nusra Front last year were freed Tuesday in exchange for Islamist prisoners including the former wife of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
A senior Hamas commander has suggested the movement is in possession of Israeli soldiers' bodies seized during the last war in Gaza and would swap them for Palestinian prisoners.
The exclusion of an Iranian-American business man from last months prisoner swop between Tehran and Washington is raising questions about relations between the two countries.
Under huge domestic pressure, Amman demands release of pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh in exchange for IS sympathiser, hours after the group threaten to kill him and a Japanese hostage.
Yemen's government and Houthi rebels on Tuesday reached an agreement to release half of the prisoners and detainees held by both sides, amid UN-brokered peace talks that began last month.
While talks between pro-government and Houthi officials take place in Switzerland, the two sides have swapped hundreds of prisoners as a shaky ceasefire is interrupted by sporadic clashes.
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The Russia-Iran-Turkey Astana process was launched after Moscow intervened military in Syria and tipped the war's balance in favour of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson accused the United States and European nations of delaying talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.