Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79, named as Gaza hostages freed on Monday

The women were released at the Rafah crossing into Egypt after being taken from their homes in the kibbutz of Nir Oz on 7 October

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Two elderly Israeli hostages freed by Hamas on Monday have been named as 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz and 79-year-old Nurit Cooper.

The two women were taken out of Gaza at the Rafah crossing into Egypt, where they were put into ambulances, according to footage shown on Egyptian TV. The two women and their husbands were snatched from their homes in the kibbutz of Nir Oz near the Gaza border during Hamas’s rampage into southern Israeli communities on 7 October. Their husbands, who are 83 and 84, were not released.