The United States government, on Tuesday, called on the Palestinian militants to release more than two hundred captives before Gaza ceasefire talks are considered.
This comes after two elderly Hamas hostages were airlifted to an Israeli hospital to be reunited with family on Tuesday.
Naija News recalls that the Hamas militants invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, and killed at least 1,400 people.
According to Israeli officials, most civilians were shot or burnt to death on the first day of the raid.
The militants also took 222 people hostage, among them elderly people and young children.
The hostages include dozens of dual nationals and foreigners.
Hamas health ministry in Gaza revealed that more than 5,000 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed across the Gaza Strip in retaliatory Israeli bombardments.
Nurit Cooper, 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, and their octogenarian husbands were among the hostages seized on October 7.
Hamas released Cooper and Lifshitz on Monday citing “compelling humanitarian” reasons, after mediation by Qatar and Egypt.
Their release comes days after a US mother and daughter were freed.
The women were wheeled into the facility on a stretcher and wheelchair, as relatives gathered nearby.
Lifshitz recounted being bundled onto the back of a motorbike and stolen away to Gaza.
She told Israeli media, “They loaded me on a motorcycle sideways so I wouldn’t fall, with one terrorist holding me from the front and the other from behind.
“They crossed the border fence into the Gaza Strip, and at first they held me in the town of Abesan, which is near Be’eri. After that, I don’t know where I was taken.”
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