Hamas leaves three more hostages – this is known about her

Israel’s Foreign Minister compared the hostages released by Hamas in view of their apparently poor physical condition with survivors of the Schoah. “The Israeli hostages look like Holocaust survivors,” Gideon Saar wrote on the X platform. Only the hostages have obviously suffered hunger. With a view to those present at the release, he wrote: “Hamas terrorists and other residents of the Gaza Strip look completely healthy.”

Recordings of the emaciated, weak and pale -looking hostages caused horror in Israel. Hundreds of onlookers, including many young men and armed Hamas members, showed pictures of the release. It was unclear whether Hamas had selected Palestinians as a participant. The Islamist terrorist organization uses the exposure as a power demonstrations.

The Islamist Hamas had handed over three more hostages to the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip as part of a ceasefire agreement with Israel. Ohad Ben Ami, 56, Or Levy, 34, and Eli Scharabi, 52, were released on the 491st day of her hostage in Deir Al-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip, as can be seen in television recordings.

The Israeli army confirmed the handover of the hostages by Hamas, citing the International Committee from the Red Cross (IKRK). The helpers should shortly hand over the emaciated -looking men to the Israeli military.

In return for their release, 183 Palestinian prisoners were to be released from Israeli prisons. Among them are 18 prison terms and 111 Palestinians, who were arrested in the Gaza Strip after October 7th.

Hundreds of onlookers persecuted the hostage handover, as television recordings showed. Unlike almost a week ago, there was no pushing quantity and no chaos through which the hostages had to make a way. Numerous hooded Hamas members, mostly armed and mostly armed with machine guns, were also present-as well as the previous hostage clearance.

The 56-year-old, who reports also has German citizenship, lives in Kibbutz Beeri near the Gaza Strip. From there, the accountant of the settlement during the massacre of Hamas and other extremists from the Gaza Strip in Israel was deported on October 7, 2023.

His wife Ras Ben Ami also fell into the hands of the Islamists and was also kidnapped in the Gaza Strip. She was released during a fire break in November 2023. One of the daughters put a video on the net, in which the joy and relief of the announcement of the release can be seen. “Finally my heart will be one again,” she wrote, as the newspaper “Times of Israel” reported.

His story is sadder. The 34-year-old was on October 7, 2023 with his wife Einav at the Nova music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip when the Islamists started their massacre. They had left their little son with his grandparents. In front of the marauding Palestinians, the couple fled into one of the concrete protection buildings that were intended as shelters from rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.

They are about the size of a waiting house at a bus stop and have no closable doors. That is why they became a trap for many protection seekers because the terrorists throw or shot hand grenades. Ors wife Einav also died there. He was kidnapped himself. After Ors was announced, his brother told the little son Ors: “Mogi, we found dad.” The boy is jumping around on the bed with joy.

It hit him the hardest. The 52-year-old also lived with his wife Liann and her two daughters Noija and Yahel from Great Britain like Ben Ami in Kibbutz Beeri. The Islamists deleted his family. They murdered Sharabi’s wife and the two daughters in the shelter of the residential building.

Sharabi himself was captured together with his brother Jossi, who lives next door and dragged into the Gaza strip. A good three months later, the Israeli authorities confirmed that the brother was also killed and that his body was in the Gaza Strip.

According to a report “Times of Israel”, the von Scharabi family wrote: “Today we want to show him more than ever that he was never alone.” But it will be difficult, his brother Sharon knows. “My life’s work is to bring Eli back alive, but I don’t know how to live on when he learns that he no longer has a family. How can you help someone to recover,” he told the newspaper “Haaretz” Last autumn.

Since the beginning of the ceasefire in the Gaza War on January 19, Hamas has released 16 out of a total of 33 Israeli hostages, which are to be handed over by Hamas during the first phase of the three-stage agreement. In addition, the terrorist organization left five Thai countries, but not as part of the agreement with Israel.

Hamas had previously announced that eight of the 33 Israeli hostages were dead. It is unclear who it is.

After the release of three other kidnappers, a total of 76 hostages are now recorded in the Gaza Strip. 35 of them are according to Israeli information. The next hostages are to be released next weekend. In total, more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners are said to be released in the first phase in exchange for hostages.

The ceasefire had been negotiated in tedious indirect conversations between Israel and Hamas with the mediation of the United States, Qatar and Egypt. Efforts are made to agree on a second phase of the agreement, which should lead to a final end to the war and the release of the remaining hostages.

As part of the first phase of the ceasefire, the Egyptian border crossing to the Gaza Strip in southern Rafah was reopened for the first time in almost nine months ago. Patients from the coastal strip were brought to Egypt for treatment and humanitarian aid goods were transported through the transition to the Gaza Strip. Previously, hundreds of thousands of inland refugees from the south of the Gaza Strip were able to return to the north.

Note from the editorial team: This article has been updated.