Hamas releases two more hostages

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Two more hostages have been released from Hamas custody after Qatari and Egyptian mediation. Israeli citizens Nurit Cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz have arrived for medical care in Tel Aviv, Israel. Yocheved’s daughter Sharone Lifschitz joins AC360 from Heathrow Airport where she was about to jump on a flight to Israel when she heard the good news. Plus, the United Nations says twenty more trucks passed the Rafah crossing into Gaza to bring vital humanitarian aid. CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward gives Anderson Cooper an update on the hospital situation in Gaza. For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN’s podcast ‘Tug of War: Attack on Israel’ here: https://link.chtbl.com/-lB8n-bJ To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	3 a.m. in Tel Aviv, two more hostages of more than 200 still being held are on their
0:08.0	way home.
0:09.0	Noree Cooper, who's 79 years old, and Iokravid Lipshets, who's 79 years old, and Yoko Lipschitz, who is 85.
0:15.0	Both Israeli citizens, both taken with their husbands
0:18.0	from Kibbutz near Oz on October 7th.
0:21.3	Ms. Lipschitz and her husband are founding members of that cabots.
0:24.6	Her husband is still being held.
0:27.2	A short time ago, she and Mrs. Cooper were handed over to the Red Cross of the
0:30.5	Rafa border crossing into Egypt from southern Gaza where they each were
0:34.6	examined by medics before being put into ambulances for the first leg of their
0:38.3	journey back to Israel. Now the medics telling an Egyptian state affiliated media outlet that this is Cooper and
0:44.8	Elishitz were in stable condition and just a few moments ago we got this video of a
0:49.3	military helicopter arriving at a hospital here in Tel Aviv carrying the two freed women now safely
0:54.8	back here in Israel.
0:56.4	This comes with sources telling CNN that the Biden administration has been pressing Israel
1:00.0	to delay its ground incursion into Gaza to allow more time to get hostages out
1:05.4	and humanitarian aid in from the south. That said national security spokesman
1:09.9	John Kirby tells CNN tonight quote we don't believe that this is the time for a ceasefire.
1:15.3	Certainly a lot to get to in the hour ahead.
1:17.0	We begin with my conversation with Jucheved
1:19.5	and Oded Lipschitz's daughter, Sharon, who grew up on Kibbutz near Oz and now lives in London.
1:25.9	When we spoke, she had just gotten the news of her mother's release and was at Heathrow Airport
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