Hostages freed by Hamas in ‘fine’ condition

STORY: The Palestinian militants said they released Lifshitz and Cooper on health grounds, after taking them and more than 200 others hostage during an October 7th armed rampage in Israel, during which the militants killed 1,400 people.Lifshitz is a peace activist who, together with her husband, helped sick Palestinians in Gaza get to hospital for years, her grandson told Reuters on Monday (October 23).She and her husband, who is still in Hamas captivity, were kidnapped from their home at the Nir Oz kibbutz, close to the border with Gaza in southern Israel, the Israeli prime minister's office said late on Monday.The two women were the third and fourth hostages to be freed. On Friday, Hamas released an American woman and her daughter.