American-Israeli Sent Sagui Dekel-Chen accepted his wife after being separate from her almost 500 days in cardiac photos and videos taken on Saturday after Hamas posted.
Scenes taken at a reception site in Israel show 36-year-old hug and kissing Avital Dekel-Chen, who gave birth to her third daughter two months after seizing him Palestinian terrorist group During October 7, 2023. Attack on Earth. The parents of Dekel-Chna were also seen greeted with greeted him home.
“Our heart hurts about everything he missed, but now he is here, unlike many others,” his family said in a statement of Associated Press.
As with previous exchanges, Saturday’s hostage edition was strongly choreographed, and prisoners made them walk on stage and talk in microphones before the audience in Khan Younis in the Gaza belt. Dozens of masked, armed fighters of Hamas were lined up near the stage, which was decorated with Palestinian flags and transparent of militant fractions.
Sagui Dekel-Chen was seen accepting his wife Avital Dekel -chen at an entrance place in Israel on Saturday, February 15, after his release of Hamas. (IDF)
Chen seemed to be limping as he lowered the stage during the hostage edition, AP reported.
The other hostages published were Alexander (Sasha) Troofanov, 29, and Iair Horn, 46. Troofanov has Israeli and Russian citizenship, while Horn is a double citizen of Israel and Argentina.
The three of them were abducted by Hamas of Kibbutz Nir Oz in a terrorist group on October 7, 2023, an attack against Israel that started War in Gaza.
Mother and father Sagui Dekel-Chen also welcomed him home to Israel on Saturday, February 15th. (IDF)
In return for hostage release, Israel began to publish 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including 36 serving of life sentences for deadly attacks. The bus that transported the first released prisoners arrived in the city of the West Bank by Beitunia and was greeted by a fan crowd of relatives and supporters.
Some appeared Gaunt, and the Palestinian Emergency Service of the Red Crescent Emergency said that four were immediately taken to medical treatment.
Israeli hostage Iair Horn, 46, left, Sagui Dekel Chen, 36, Center left, and Alexander Troofanov, 29, right, accompanied by Hamas and Islamic jihad fighters while handing over them to the Red Cross in Khan in Gaza Strip on Saturday, February 15 . (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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This is the sixth replacement since the truce came into force on January 19th. Before Saturday, 21 hostages and over 730 Palestinian prisoners were released during the first phase of the tribute.
Fox News’ Landon Mion and Associated Press contributed to this report.
