After practically seven weeks in captivity, hostages kidnapped by Hamas and different teams throughout the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel have been launched as a part of a deal that paused the preventing within the Gaza Strip.
The primary group of 13 Israeli hostages — all girls and youngsters — had been handed over to Israeli officers on Friday, becoming a member of 5 others launched or rescued earlier within the preventing. Twelve of the newly launched folks had been kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, which had about 75 folks taken hostage throughout the preliminary assault. One of many 13 was taken from Kibbutz Nirim.
As well as, 10 Thais and one Filipino had been additionally launched.
Right here’s what we all know concerning the newly launched Israelis.
Keren Munder, 54; Ohad Munder Zichri, 9; Ruth Munder, 78
Keren Munder and her son, Ohad Munder Zichri, residents of Kfar Saba in central Israel, had been visiting her mother and father, Ruth and Abraham Munder, in Kibbutz Nir Oz, close to the Gaza border, when the Oct. 7 assault occurred.
Ruth and Abraham’s son, Roee, 50, was killed throughout the assault. Ohad had his ninth birthday in captivity on Oct. 23. Abraham, 78, is believed to nonetheless be held in Gaza.
Ruth is a retired hairdresser and seamstress, in keeping with Kibbutz Nir Oz. Keren teaches youngsters with particular wants.
Danielle Aloni; Amelia Aloni, 5
Danielle Aloni and her daughter Amelia had been taken hostage whereas visiting Ms. Aloni’s sister, Sharon Cunio, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz.
They had been kidnapped together with Sharon, her husband David Cunio, and their twins, Emma and Yuli, 3.
The final their household heard from them was a message on WhatsApp that learn: “Assist, we’re dying.”
Hamas later distributed a video of Ms. Aloni in captivity.
Adina Moshe, 72
Ms. Moshe was final seen on Oct. 7 between two gunmen on a motorbike being pushed into Gaza. She was kidnapped from her secure room in Kibbutz Nir Ozafter her husband, Sa’id Moshe, was killed throughout the Hamas assault.
Naama Ben-Dvora, Ms. Moshe’s niece, informed an Israeli broadcaster that she felt “a way of very, very nice reduction, and happiness and hope, after all, that all of them will come dwelling.”
Yaffa Adar, 85
Ms. Adar helped discovered Kibbutz Nir Ozwithin the Fifties, in keeping with her household. She was kidnapped along with her grandson Tamir Adar, 38, who stays in captivity.
{A photograph} of Ms. Adar’s abduction turned one of many defining photos of the Oct. 7 assault. She was photographed wrapped in a pink blanket as she sat in a golf cart that was pushed by militants into Gaza.
Hanna Katzir, 76
Ms. Katzir helped oversee baby care in Kibbutz Nir Ozfor a few years, in keeping with a niece, Dalit Katzenellenbogen, who lives in Tel Aviv. A grandmother of six who walks with a walker, she was kidnapped to Gaza on Oct. 7 along with her son, Elad Katzir, 47. Her husband, Rami, was killed within the assault on Oct. 7.
Islamic Jihad, an armed Palestinian group that helped lead the assault, had just lately claimed that Ms. Katzir had died in captivity and mentioned it might present proof, which by no means materialized.
Hanna Peri, 79
Ms. Peri, certainly one of 5 individuals who had been captured on Oct. 7 from Kibbutz Nirim, immigrated to Israel from South Africa within the Nineteen Sixties and has lived at Nirim ever since. Ms. Peri labored on the neighborhood’s grocery retailer. Considered one of her three youngsters was killed within the assault on Oct. 7 and one other was kidnapped to Gaza and is believed to nonetheless be a captive there.
Ms. Peri has diabetes, suffers extreme imaginative and prescient loss in certainly one of her eyes, and loves gardening and taking tai chi lessons, in keeping with the Hostages Household Discussion board, a nongovernmental group advocating for the discharge of the hostages and supporting their households.
Margalit Moses, 77
A nature lover and a most cancers survivor, Ms. Moses, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, additionally suffers from diabetes and different persistent well being issues, in keeping with the Hostages Household Discussion board.
Regardless of her poor well being, the discussion board mentioned, she likes to hike. She traveled to Norway in the summertime and was planning to go to Mozambique this winter.
Doron Katz Asher, 34; Raz Asher, 4; Aviv Asher, 2
Ms. Katz Asher was kidnapped along with her two younger daughters, Raz and Aviv Asher, and her mom, Efrat Katz, 67, whereas they had been staying at her mom’s dwelling in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Ms. Katz Asher’s husband, Yoni Asher, 37, final heard from her on Oct. 7, when she known as him to say that there have been terrorists inside her mom’s dwelling.
Later, he noticed all 4 of his family members in a video posted on social media, which confirmed them being pushed by Gaza on the again of a pickup truck. Monitoring his spouse’s telephone remotely, Mr. Asher noticed that the gadget was taken to Khan Younis, a metropolis in southern Gaza.
Efrat Katz has not been launched.
