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
Im happy to send you an email with the accomplishments. We have been working hard trying to get the middle east to be a more stable, prosperous region. Obviously these attacks on october 7th were horrific, and 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 we are going to give up. It doesnt mean we are going to walk away from it. We still believe in the promise of a twostate solution and still going to work for that. As a matter of fact, key to eventually getting a twostate solution and we are going t focus on that as well. The twonation, i feel like enough to win the war knowing what the president was aiming to to bring normalization through two states, and that has been put down i just told you, sir. No change in our desire to see a twostate solution. No change to get n