The office of the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahuconfirmed the release and assured that both are on their way to a medical center to undergo health checks due to the conditions in which they were held.
The document named the two women as Nurit Cooper, 79 years old, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85 years old. The two were kidnapped along with their husbands in the Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the border with Gaza. She also noted that Hamas continues to hold her husband.
The spokesman for the military arm of Hamas, Abu Obeida stated in a statement that the two hostages were released “for compelling humanitarian reasons” Thanks to the mediation of Qatar and Egypt.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) claimed that it had facilitated the release of the hostages.
The liberation would have taken place at the “Rafah crossing point”, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, indicated the Extra News television network, close to the Egyptian authorities, after the Hamas announcement. Since Hamas’ bloody incursion into Israel on October 7, only one American woman and her daughter were freed on Friday.
The conditions for a ceasefire
Meanwhile, the American president, Joe Biden, He said this Monday that we can only talk about ceasefire in Gaza if Hamas releases all hostages kidnapped “The hostages must be released, then we can talk,” he said at the White House when asked if he would support a “ceasefire hostages” agreement.
Today, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller assured reporters that a ceasefire would “give Hamas the opportunity to rest, reequip and prepare to continue launching terrorist attacks against Israel,” and that is why he dismissed it.
The figures of the war
This morning, after another small shipment of humanitarian aid was allowed to enter Loop, Israeli warplanes attacked targets throughout the besieged Palestinian territory ruled by Hamas.
Since the attack on the 7th, which left about 1,400 dead and the taking of 222 hostages between Israelis and foreigners, according to Israeli sources, the Jewish State responded with all its force on Gaza, but also in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.
Of the 5,087 Palestinians killed In the hands of Israel, 2,055 are children and 1,119 are women, the Hamas Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Source: Ambito
