Gaza's Hamas rulers said Monday that they had freed two more women abducted from Israel during the October 7 attacks.
The Palestinian Islamist group's military wing said the two elderly women, identified as Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper, had been freed for "compelling humanitarian" reasons following mediation by Qatar and Egypt.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the two women's identities, aged 85 and 79, saying they lived at the Nir Oz kibbutz. Images on Egyptian television station Alqahera News, which is close to the intelligence services, showed the two women getting into ambulances, one with the help of paramedics.
Israel on Monday increased the number of confirmed hostages to 222 people seized when Hamas gunmen crossed the border and attacked kibbutz communities, towns and military bases in southern Israel. Israel hit back with a blistering bombing campaign which Gaza's Hamas-run health authority says has now killed more than 5,000 people.
When asked later about reports that more hostages could be released, Hagari refused to comment, saying only: "We are doing all that we can to free all hostages no matter the nationality.
Israeli strikes on Sunday put out of service war-torn Syria's two main airports, state media reported citing a military source,...
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