Hamas announced that on Saturday, February 22 will release the Last six live hostages of the first phase of the high the fire agreement. Among them are Ebra mangest and Hisham al Sayedkidnapped since 2014 and 2015, which will be exchanged by 77 Palestinian prisoners.
In addition, on Thursday they will deliver the bodies of Shiri Bibas (of Argentine origin) and their children, Ariel and Kfir, who, according to the terrorist organization – died in bombing. The father, Yarden Bibas, was released on February 1.
The computer scientist, who dreamed of becoming an actor, was at the Nova Music Festival, the day the catastrophe broke out. As they explained, Shem Tov maintained regular contact with his parents and “seemed to be more afraid of each call,” said his father, Malki Shem Tov. But when they took him to Gaza, contact with his son broke.
In addition, the young man is asthmatic, and lived in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, before being captured.
The eldest of four brothers and Israelo-Argentino, was with his friend Kim Damati at the Nova Music Festival, very close to the Palestinian territory, when Hamas launched his attack. She died during the assault.
Resident in Gedera, in the center of Israel, worked in a restaurant and his friends claim that he has a “contagious energy”, as expressed by the Hostage Families Forum. Likewise, he suffers a chronic disease, and the last message he sent to his mother, Niva, before they kidnap him was: “I am dead scared.”
A native of Tzur Hassah, near Jerusalem, Cohen turned 27 in captivity and was at the Nova Music Festival with his fiancee, Ziv Abud, who survived the attack.
Real estate agent, was kidnapped with three other young people, including Alon Ohel (24)who is still retained.
Shoham, who has dual Israeli and Austrian nationality, turned 40 at the end of January. He was kidnapped with his wife, Adina Shoam38, and their children Yahel (3) and Ship (8). They live in Maale Tzviya, a town in Galilee, but before they lived in the Kibutz Beeri, where they were kidnapped.
The man is a software developer and voluntary lifeguard. Your family, Shoshan Haran67 years and mother of Adina Shhamhis sister Sharon Avigdori (52) And his daughter Noam (12), they had also been kidnapped, but released them at the end of November 2023 during the first truce, along with Adina and their children.
Hisham Al Sayed, 37, has been held at the Gaza Strip For almost ten years. Bedouino Muslim of Israeli nationality, lived in the Desert of Neguev, in southern Israel, with his family before being kidnapped.
According to his parents, he suffers schizophrenia and must take his medication every day, in addition to his family indicating that he had already disappeared in Jordan and in Egypt several times before the authorities of those countries return it to Israel.
According to his relatives, Al Sayed would also have entered the Gaza Strip twice, in 2010 and 2013, before Hamas expelled him from the territory after realizing that he suffers from a mental disorder. In June 2022, Hamas spread a video in which he appears lying in a bed and connected to an artificial respirator for the Telegram application.
Mengistu is an Israeli of Ethiopian origin who is retained in the Gaza Strip, too, For just over ten years.
According to Israeli authorities, it is mentally unstable and was recorded by an Israeli surveillance chamber while climbing the barrier that Israel separates from the Gaza Strip on September 7, 2014, shortly after a war between Israel and Hamas ended. His family lives in Ascalón, in southern Israel.
Source: Ambito
