Palestinian Resistance Group Hamas has said that it has released two more hostages on health grounds in response to Egyptian-Qatari mediation efforts, in response to Egyptian-Qatari mediation efforts, reported Reuters quoting sources, adding they were elderly Israeli women.
"We decided to release them for humanitarian and poor health grounds," Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the armed wing, said in a statement on Telegram.
The two hostages were named as Nurit Yitzhak and Yocheved Lifshitz, the report added.
On Friday, the armed wing released an American mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan nearly two weeks after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7 where it escaped with many hostages.