Hamas published eight hostages including three Israelites and Five ThaisOn Thursday as part of a closed hostage exchange, more than a year after being trapped during the attack on southern Israel, guided Hamas, October 7, 2023.
Agam Berger, a soldier of the Israeli army, was first released at a ceremony highly choreographed in northern Gazi. Another edition of the hostages in southern Gazi descended into chaos as the crowds pushed forward to try to see them.
The hostage edition is part 42-day termination agreement This came into force this month, stopping the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Hamas agreed that he would gradually release 33 of almost 100 remaining hostages in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinians in the prison of Israel and partial Israeli withdrawal.
Here’s a more close view of the Israelites posted on Thursday.
Agam Berger
Mrs. Berger was 19 years old, and was recently assigned as a lookout when the Hamas -guided militants broke into the Nahal Oz army, where she worked, killing more than 50 soldiers and kidnapped her and six other soldiers. Four were earlier Published in exchange Saturday.
Mrs. Berger’s mother, meirav, said she last saw her daughter when they rejected her to the base 5 October 2023, two days before the attack. According to the website created her family, And her parents’ accounts in Israeli newspaper, Mrs. Berger called her parents in the middle of an attack, using a phone of a friend who was killed next to her. She told them that she could hear the shooting shots and that people were crying, but not to be afraid, the website said.
In November 2023, Agam Goldstein-almogwho was trapped with her daughter and two sons, and was released as part of the first contract agreement, she said they held her in the tunnel with Mrs. Berger and other soldiers who served as trapped. She said Mrs. Berger prays a lot and seemed to be in a good mood.
In August, the Ms Berger family held an event to mark their birthday at Tel Aviv’s Anna Museum of the Jewish People, focused on music because it is passionate about music and plays violin. She has a twin sister and two more siblings.
Gadi Moses
Gadi Moses, an expert on agriculture, is abducted in Kibbutz Nir Oz after he left the safe space to try to try Reason with militants.
His partner, Ephrat Katz, hid in a safe room in their house with his daughter and two guest grandchildren, before the militants took them. Their abduction is trapped to the video This showed them glued to the back of the truck.
Mrs. Katz was killed when the Israeli helicopter, responding to the attack under the guidance of Hamas, shot the vehicle in which he was holding. Her daughter and grandchildren were released during November 2023.
Mr. Moses, then 79, was seen in December 2023 in a video published by Palestinian Islamic jihad, urging Israel that work for his release. The family said in September that they had no word about his fate of.
Arbel Yehud
Arbel Yehud was 28 years old when she was took hostage along with her boyfriend, Ariel Cunio, from their house to Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel. Mr. Canio is believed to be still being held in captivity. It was also thought to be her brother, Dolev Yehud, a doctor, as a hostage, but was identified last year as killed during the October 7 attack.
Mrs. Yehud’s family described her as passionate about space and astronomy and said she worked as a guide in the space and technology center.
In February her father Yechi Yehud, said the Daily Mail that he avoided watching or reading any news so as not to gather hopes for an agreement. Her mother Yael Yehud described herself as a “broken” and said she often imagined her children enter the door again.
O 29. Mrs. Yehud’s birthday in June, her close friend, Shani Gorenwho was a hostage and was released in the first interruption agreement, he spoke at a gathering in Tel Aviv and described the difficulty in recovery.
“I wake up every day, still holding on me,” she said. “Because until Arbel and everyone else go home, we can’t even start discussing rehabilitation and moving forward. I know. I was there.”
Mrs. Yehud was expected to be released on Saturday, which encouraged one of the most significant disputes between Israel and Hamas since the beginning of the trial.
Israeli officials said they believe that Hamas did not hold her and suggested that the second militant group was responsible for retaining in her release. Palestinian Islamic jihad on Monday Posted the videoWhat analysis of the New York Times dates from January 25, in which she says, “My family, I’m fine. I miss you endlessly and hope to come back to you soon, like girls who have been released.”
Rights and international law experts have noticed that, by definition, such videos with hostages are given under compulsion and that statements are usually forced in them.
