Israel. Two more hostages have been released. Two older women were told, the family of yohevid confirms that she has been let go. They confirmed this just a couple of minutes ago. Lipsitd was one of the founders of the kibbutz. A Peace Activist who the paper says regularly transported patients from gaza for medical treatment in israel. She is somebody thats been talked about a lot in the news over the past two weeks. Joining us now from tel aviv is nbc news correspondent hala gorani. A lot is up in the air. Walk us through what we are able to report right now . Reporter we heard from the brigade spokesperson, the military ring of hamas, announcing the release of two hostages, a source briefed on the talks confirmed to me as well about ten minutes ago that these two hostages were released. They were chosen for release because they were elderly, without confirming the names of the hostages, but you mentioned elderly women. One of the families confirming their release. This comes a couple
Reiterate a list of accomplishments. Im happy to send you an email with them. We have been working hard to get the middle east to be a more stable prosperous region. Thats not going to change. These attacks on october 7th were horrific. The israelis have a right and responsibility to respond to those attacks. I think everybody understands that, and so we also understand that the focus of countries in the region, particularly israel, is going to be on that. Its our focus, too. But that doesnt mean were going to give up. This doesnt mean were just going to walk away from it. We still believe in the promise of a twostate solution, and were still going to continue to work for that. We still believe, as a matter of fact, key to getting a twostate solution is normalization between israel and saudi arabia, and were still going to work on as well. Why is the president not focusing in the last couple of weeks on his agent that was basically for feuding. I feel like this war, what the president