The latest news in brief:

• French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Tel Aviv Tuesday morning to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defence minister Benny Gantz and main opposition leader Yair Lapid.

• Two elderly hostages released from Hamas captivity in Gaza have been airlifted to an Israeli hospital to be reunited with family Tuesday.

• This brings the total number of hostages released by Hamas to four. No Palestinian prisoners were released in exchange, a condition Hamas had previously set for hostage releases.

• Overnight Israeli air strikes across Gaza killed 140 people, according to the Hamas-run government’s media office.

• The death toll in Gaza rose to 5,087, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said Monday. The number of people taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 increased to 222, according to the Israeli military. The official number of people killed in the Hamas attack has not been revised since Saturday; it remains at 1,400.

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Key developments from Monday, October 23:

Hamas has released two female captives for humanitarian reasons and in response to a Qatari-Egyptian mediation, according to a statement by Abu Ubaida, the spokesman of the group’s armed wing, on its Telegram channel.

Israel escalated its attacks on the Gaza Strip while also striking targets in the occupied West Bank, Syria and Lebanon and traded fire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group.

Palestinian health ministry says Gaza death toll tops 5,000 in two weeks of Israeli air strikes.

Read our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)

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