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Israel confirmed the release of the mother and daughter, who are from Illinois and family members of former NBC News correspondent Martin Fletcher.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a video address earlier that 10 Americans remained"unaccounted for." Judith, 59, is an artist and never missed a sabbath service at her synagogue. Natalie, 17, had just graduated from Deerfield High School and hoped to work in fashion, interior design or tattooing following her summer and fall travel plans, which included visiting Italy before heading to Israel for the Jewish holidays and her grandmother’s 85th birthday, NBC Chicago reported.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment. The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Chavah Rochel Golden broke down in tears when she learned that her close friend Judith Raanan and her daughter, Natalie, were released from Hamas captivity. The Raanans, who are relatives of former NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher, had been staying at a kibbutz in southern Israel when they were taken captive on Oct. 7.National Security Council Middle East Coordinator Brett McGurk said on NBC News Now that Natalie and Judith Raanan are being reunited with family"as we speak."
Blinken thanked the government of Qatar for their “very important assistance,” but said he could not specify about what Qatar’s role was in the recovery of the hostages. "The International Committee of the Red Cross helped facilitate this release by transporting the hostages from Gaza to Israel, underscoring the real-life impact of our role as a neutral actor between the warring parties," the group said in a statement.
“We will continue our dialogue with both the Israelis and Hamas, and we hope these efforts will lead to the release of all civilian hostages from every nationality, with the ultimate aim of de-escalating the current crisis and restoring peace,” Al-Ansari said.President Joe Biden said that Natalie and Judith Raanan, the two Americans released by Hamas today, will soon be reunited with their family.
"I am incredibly relieved that Natalie and Judith Raanan of Evanston have been released from captivity in Gaza," Pritzker said in a statement. They were “on their way to a meeting point at a military base in the center of the country, where their family members are waiting for them,” the spokesperson said.The mother and daughter were taken captive when Hamas militants swept through their kibbutz, Nahal Oz, on Oct. 7, the spokesperson said.
"I have two pregnant women here," Jahshan said."You have no idea how the bombing affected them physically and psychologically." The school is among the 183 run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, the agency tasked with supporting Palestinian development since 1949.Thousands of people gathered in major cities today to demonstrate in support of Palestinians. In Jakarta, Indonesia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday prayers ended with marches to major government offices, including U.S. embassies.
A Sabbath table in Tel Aviv, Israel, is set with empty chairs that symbolically represent hostages and missing people on Friday.The families of Israelis who are missing or being held hostage stand by a set dinner table with empty chairs in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday.Tears flowed as Israeli singer Kobi Aflalo sang his songs"Michtav Le’achi " and"Shir Lama’alot ."
The Israeli Defense Force has also confirmed that 10 to 20 of the 203 kidnapped Israelis are 60 years old or older, the prime minister's office said. And it said some 7,380 missiles"have been launched towards Israel." "The aid will include water, food and medicine," the office said."And this is on the condition that this aid does not reach Hamas. We will not allow this aid to feed the Hamas war machine."It may seem like a small thing given the situation — the 8-year-old is believed to be among the roughly 200 Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in. But in the long nights of waiting for news, the thought of Ohad being unable to see is a source of sharp pain for his loved ones.
"The third phase will require the removal of Israel’s responsibility for life in the Gaza strip, and the establishment of a new security reality for the citizens of Israel," Gallant said in a statement from his office. In his address to the nation last night, Biden said: “We must without equivocation denounce antisemitism. We must also without equivocation denounce Islamophobia.”
The IDF said in a statement that its fighter jets targeted the command and control center belonging to Hamas, involved in the launching of rockets and mortars toward Israel. It's one of several public art installations by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, established hours after the Oct. 7 attacks. Posters plastered over the city feature its slogan, “Bring Them Home Now,” alongside faces of the missing. Nearby, a 20-foot ream of paper allows people to write messages, which the group plans to hang outside the White House.
They added that, according to an initial assessment, one rocket was intercepted by an aerial defense system while the other hit an empty storage facility. No one was injured.ASHDOD, Israel — More than 20 of the at least 200 people taken hostage by Hamas in its unprecedented attack on Israel are under the age of 18, the Israel Defense Forces has said.
"Our trucks are loaded and ready to go," Tedros said in a video statement."We are working with Egypt and Palestine Red Crescent Societies to deliver our supplies into Gaza as soon as the Rafah crossing is opened." A Gazan health ministry spokesperson said 18 have died in the explosion and people remain under the rubble.
"What we need is to make them move, to make them move to the other side of his wall, to make them move as quickly as possible and as many as possible," he added.Lebanese militant group Hezbollah’s media arm released a new video showing attacks along the border between Lebanon and Israel. It shows what the group claims is missiles striking several Israeli army positions on Wednesday.
"We have more supplies ready to go which are on the way but this will only go so far. A sustained flow of humanitarian aid is needed," a spokesperson told NBC News Friday.Eli Cohen said Friday he met with 22 foreign ambassadors and diplomats Friday whose citizens were taken hostage and are being held in Gaza to form"a unified and broad front" for their release as soon as possible.
China and Russia are closely coordinating their policy on the Israel-Hamas war, with both countries refraining from condemning Hamas and saying the United States is partially to blame for the conflict. NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Israel on fears of a widening war in the Middle East and the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.U.N.
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