The husbands of the two women remain in Hamas captivity after being taken from their homes on October 7.
Two elderly women have been released by Hamas and are being monitored overnight in a Tel Aviv hospital following an emotional reunion with their family.
“They look OK. Their medical condition is OK. They’re talking,” Tel Aviv's hospital’s head nurse Eti Uziel said in a video released by the hospital shortly after the arrival of the two women. The organisation says it hit Hamas gunmen setting up to fire rockets toward Israel, a tunnel shaft allowing Hamas to infiltrate Israel through the sea and command centres used by operatives and staging armaments in mosques.The death toll in Gaza rose rapidly as Israel ramped up the airstrike campaign, in what it said was preparation for an eventual ground assault.
“With the death toll climbing, children are at risk and terrified. Children have been killed and injured in every major escalation, not to mention suffering from serious longer term mental health impacts – they’ve never emerged unscathed. "French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Israel this morning for talks with Israeli leaders.
It's at odds with the US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who have both outwardly supported Israel's right to defend itself.
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