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The International Committee of the Red Cross says the militant Islamist group Hamas has released two more hostages from Gaza.
The Israeli prime minister’s office named them as 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz and 79-year-old Nurit Cooper and said they would be taken to a medical facility.
The two women were transported out of Gaza on Monday evening, the Red Cross said. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the humanitarian group added that hoped “they will soon be back with their loved ones.”
“Our role as a neutral intermediary makes this work possible [and] we are ready to facilitate any future release,” the ICRC added.
Hamas, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Germany, the US and the EU among others, said it had released the two women for humanitarian reasons.
The two women, along with their husbands, were abducted from their homes in the kibbutz of Nir Oz near the Gaza border during the October 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas. Their husbands were not released.
Hamas and other militants in Gaza are believed to have taken roughly 220 people, including an unconfirmed number of foreigners and dual nationals. Hamas released an American woman and her teenage daughter last week.
“We are happy that my grandmother is back”, the grandson of Lifshnitz has commented.
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