Hamas issued three other hostages on Saturday as part of an exchange of Palestinian prisoners, in a very theatrical surrender in which men were thrown to deliver speeches effectively at gunpoint.
The hostage version is the fifth in a tense chain of stock exchanges that are part of the 42 -day ceasefire deal that entered into force last month, stopping fighting between Israel and Hamas. Hamas agreed to release 33 out of about 100 remaining hostages, compared to more than 1,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and partial Israeli withdrawal.
Here is a closer look at the Israelis issued on Saturday:
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Mr. Bin Ami, who was 54 years old when he was kidnapped from Kibbutz Perry in southern Israel, Kibbutz accountant was He is a thirsty bike passenger. His wife, Raz Bin Amy, was also taken into account, but was issued in the first ceasefire deal in November 2023.
“The only important thing is to return to Odeh,” Raz Bin Amy told the New York Times in August.
Ella Bin Ami, one of the three daughters of the couple, was a voice defender of the ceasefire deal. She criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to speak in Congress in July, saying that he should not travel abroad until there was an agreement to liberate the hostages. A video has been posted Social media in AugustMrs. Bin Amy, near the border with Gaza, offered her father’s name with a microphone at hand and says she missed it.
In December, on the birthday of Mr. Bin Amy II in captivity, his family was distinguished today Ride And a party, according to his brother, Cuban, who The Israeli -Israeli media was told About 200 people joined them while they were riding along a bicycle path that was created to celebrate 11 bike passengers who were killed on October 7 and the hostages, including Mr. Bin Amy. He said that the family had not received any signs alive since it was captured.
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Mr. Levy was thirty -three years old when he took a hostage. His wife, Eynav Levy, died on October 7. Their son, who was in the second of time, was with the mother of Mrs. Levy while his parents went to the Nova Music Festival, an event that was held just a few miles from the Gaza border was a major goal of the attack.
Mr. Levy He wrote his mother During the attack, including shelter stormed the militants. The Israeli army later informed the family that Mrs. Levy’s body was found in the shelter and that Mr. Levy was being held in Gaza.
The couple worked in technology and lived near Tel Aviv. Mr. Levy’s older brother, Michael Levy, talked about the status of his younger brother in It happened in California in MarchOne of the many trips he made all over the world to press a hostage deal. At that time, he said he did not receive indicators that his brother died, but he was not very optimistic about a deal.
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Mr. Sharbi was also kidnapped from Be’eri, and his wife and two daughters were killed in the attack.
His brother Yossi was also considered a hostage in Gaza, where he was killed in Israeli air strikeThe Israeli army later told his family.
His brother, Sharon, said in December that the news of the progress of the ceasefire deal has prompted “a new hope among the families of the hostages that may see their loved ones again-at the same time, tension.”
“We have lost four people,” he said. “We do not intend to fill the fifth coffin.”