{"id":3539,"date":"2025-02-02T20:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/who-are-the-hostages-released-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T20:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T20:04:25","slug":"who-are-the-hostages-released-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/who-are-the-hostages-released-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the Hostages Released on Saturday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas released three more hostages on Saturday as part of its cease-fire deal with Israel, in a quick process that was a stark contrast to a chaotic handover earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The hostage release is part of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/17\/world\/middleeast\/israel-cabinet-ceasefire-gaza.html\" title=\"\">a 42-day cease-fire deal<\/a> that went into effect last month, pausing the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Hamas agreed to incrementally release 33 of the nearly 100 remaining hostages in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinians jailed by Israel and a partial Israeli withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here\u2019s a closer look at the Israelis released on Saturday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-359c824f\">Yarden Bibas<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many Israelis, the abduction of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/31\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hostage-release-hamas-yarden-bibas.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Bibas and his family<\/a> has become emblematic of the cruelty of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Militants also abducted his wife, Shiri, and their two children, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, who was 9 months old at the time, from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas later said Ms. Bibas and the two children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. Israeli officials have not publicly confirmed the claim but have warned that they are gravely concerned for their fates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A video of Ms. Bibas being marched through the kibbutz by a Hamas militant with her two children on Oct. 7, 2023, captured her terror. They were imprisoned separately from Mr. Bibas. In November 2023, Hamas posted a video showing him being told that they had died in captivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Bibas family has struggled with not <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/07\/world\/middleeast\/october-7-hostages.html\" title=\"\">knowing whether their loved ones are alive<\/a>. The last time any of them received proof of life for Mr. Bibas was when images that showed him bleeding from the head circulated online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ofri Bibas-Levy, Mr. Bibas\u2019s sister who has been advocating a cease-fire and hostage deal, said she was grateful for the attention of the news media and world leaders. But the haunting images of Shiri and her children have turned them into symbols of the crisis and generated a degree of public fascination about their fate that was sometimes rattling, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople attach their names to any new story that pops up, even if it is made up,\u201d she said at a gathering of relatives of hostages near the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Jerusalem to renew calls for an urgent deal to bring them home. \u201cAnd every time that happens, it shakes our whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/taken-captive-ofer-calderon-initially-escaped-through-window\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Kalderon, a French Israeli<\/a> who was 52 at the time of the Hamas attack, was captured with two of his four children, Erez and Sahar, 12 and 16 at the time. They had fled from their shelter in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel into nearby fields, according to Israeli media. The children were released in the November 2023 cease-fire deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In October of 2024, more than a year after Mr. Kalderon was taken hostage, his cousin Ifat Kalderon was part of a group of relatives of hostages who issued a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/19\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-hostages-netanyahu-gaza-ceasefire.html\" title=\"\">sharply worded televised statement<\/a> to Mr. Netanyahu. They called on the prime minister to seize the moment after the killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 attack, to reach a hostage and cease-fire deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe all understand there is a narrow window of opportunity \u2014 and maybe the last \u2014 to save lives,\u201d she said. The next month, his family marked his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/bk6z2qzxkg\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">second birthday in captivity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Siegel, an American Israeli, was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/taken-captive-us-citizen-keith-siegel-driven-to-gaza-in-his-own-car\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">64 when he was taken captive<\/a> with his wife, Aviva Siegel, from their home in Kfar Azza and driven, along <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/dad-wont-be-able-to-say-goodbye-mother-of-hamas-hostage-keith-siegel-dies\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">with a neighbor and her two children<\/a>, into Gaza in their own car, according to Israeli media reports. He was raised in North Carolina and moved to Israel as an adult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Siegel was released in late November 2023 in the first cease-fire deal. No word was heard from Mr. Siegel until Hamas <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/04\/27\/world\/israel-gaza-war-hamas?smid=url-share#hamas-israel-hostages-video\" title=\"\">released a video<\/a> of him and another hostage in April of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Siegel <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/29\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hostage-gaza-war.html\" title=\"\">told The New York Times<\/a> in May that she and her husband had been moved more than a dozen times and kept in apartments and tunnels. She said they were often denied food and water for many hours. She said her captors abused and humiliated the hostages and did not permit them to speak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Siegel said she often thought about her last conversation with her husband before she was freed: \u201cI asked Keith to be strong for me, and I said, \u2018I\u2019ll be strong for you\u2019 \u2014 and that\u2019s what\u2019s keeping me alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br 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