US President Joe Biden welcomes the release of a mother and daughter, while relatives of other captives push for more to be done. Follow live.
Hamas has feed an American woman and her teenage daughter, who it had held hostage in Gaza, Israel and the United States say.
It's the first such release from among the roughly 200 people the militant group abducted from Israel on October 7.released two American hostages — a mother and daughterIsrael says more than 1,400 people have been killed thereKey EventHamas has freed an American woman and her teenage daughter it had held hostage in Gaza, Israel and the US say, the first such release from among the roughly 200 people the militant group abducted from Israel around two weeks ago.
The two Americans, Judith Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie, were out of the Gaza Strip and in the hands of the Israeli military, an army spokesman said.Hamas said it released the pair for humanitarian reasons in an agreement with the Qatari government. "I am overjoyed that they will soon be reunited with their family, who has been wracked with fear," US President Joe Biden said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which transported the freed Americans from Gaza to Israel, said their release was "a sliver of hope"."We call on world leaders and the international community to exert their full power in order to act for the release of all the hostages and missing,'' their statement said.
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