{"id":8104,"date":"2025-02-22T22:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/who-are-the-6-freed-israeli-hostages\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:52:25","slug":"who-are-the-6-freed-israeli-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/who-are-the-6-freed-israeli-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the 6 Freed Israeli Hostages?"},"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 six more hostages on Saturday as part of its cease-fire deal with Israel, the last living captives to be freed under the current truce in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As part of the cease-fire agreement, Hamas committed to releasing at least 33 of the nearly 100 captives remaining in Gaza, a number of whom are believed to be dead, in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinians jailed by Israel and a partial Israeli withdrawal. Both sides are set to negotiate terms to extend the truce, but an agreement appears remote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two of the captives freed on Saturday had been in Hamas\u2019s hands for about 10 years. Four others were taken during the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which prompted the Gaza war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-e2a3962\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Omer Wenkert<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">A poster of Omer Wenkert at the site of the festival in southern Israel where he was abducted.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Amir Cohen\/Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Omer Wenkert, 23, was kidnapped during the Oct. 7 assault as Palestinian militants attacked a music festival, the Tribe of Nova, being held near the Gaza border. Videos and photographs from the time of the attack show him <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/09\/world\/middleeast\/israel-holocaust-survivors-hamas.html\" title=\"\">being restrained<\/a>, stripped to his underwear and surrounded by armed men in the back of a truck as he was taken away to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was in touch with his family on the morning of the attack and had said that he was afraid. Relatives later saw video of his abduction. His grandmother, Tsili Wenkert, a Holocaust survivor who said that she had been saved by the Soviet Army, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/holocaust-survivor-grandmother-of-hostage-omer-wenkert-turns-to-russias-putin\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">appealed to Russian officials for help<\/a> in securing her grandson\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Wenkert managed a restaurant in central Israel and was supposed to start a restaurant management course in college. His father, Shai Wenkert, pleaded for his freedom near Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s residence in Jerusalem on the first anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a speech to a group of other relatives of hostages and their supporters, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/07\/world\/middleeast\/october-7-hostages.html\" title=\"\">he said<\/a>: \u201cA whole year in which time has stopped. I\u2019m still on the same day.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-2bc68f00\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Eliya Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-nss59b e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">A handout photo of Eliya Cohen.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Bring Them Home Now<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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\">Eliya Cohen, who was 27 when he was captured, had also been at the Nova music festival. He took cover with other festival attendees when militants threw <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/11\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-oct-7-attack-shelter.html\" title=\"\">grenades into their shelter<\/a> and stormed it, ordering Mr. Cohen and two other men out with them, according to his girlfriend, Ziv Abud from Tel Aviv, one of the bunker\u2019s few survivors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Abud had gone to the festival with Mr. Cohen, her nephew and her nephew\u2019s girlfriend. Of the four, she was the only one to make it home. Mr. Cohen was shot in the leg during the raid, she said, and she hid with him under a pile of dead bodies until she <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/taken-captive-eliya-cohen-dragged-from-a-pile-of-dead-bodies\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">felt him pulled away from her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Cohen\u2019s mother, Sigalit Cohen, told The Guardian in December 2023 that she had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/eliya-cohen-israel-hostage-family-agony-gaza-fighting\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">quit her job as an accountant<\/a> to lobby for the release of the captives. Near the first anniversary of the war and hostage crisis, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/opinions\/not-at-the-expense-of-hostages\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">she wrote in an editorial<\/a> addressing Israelis: \u201cHave we learned anything from that cursed day? Have we taken it upon ourselves to be better?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-7b479015\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Hisham al-Sayed<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-nss59b e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">A handout photograph of Hisham al-Sayed.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Bring Them Home Now<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hisham al-Sayed is a member of Israel\u2019s Arab Bedouin minority from the town of Hura. He is one of two Israeli hostages, along with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/multimedia\/100000003037021\/funeral-for-israeli-soldier-hadar-goldin-killed-in-gaza-fighting.html\" title=\"\">Hadar Goldin<\/a>, who were captured by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip many years before the Oct. 7 raids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. al-Sayed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/13\/world\/middleeast\/hamas-israel-hostages.html\" title=\"\">entered Gaza in 2015<\/a> and was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-61976009\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">not seen again until 2022<\/a>, when Hamas released a video purporting to show him lying in a bed looking dazed and wearing an oxygen mask. Mr. al-Sayed has schizophrenia, according to his family, and had attempted to enter Gaza before. Hamas accused Mr. al-Sayed of being an Israeli soldier and was thought to be holding him to pressure Israel to release Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2017, a Human Rights Watch investigation concluded that Mr. al-Sayed was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2017\/05\/03\/2-israelis-who-entered-gaza-held-incommunicado\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">not affiliated with the Israeli military or government<\/a>. After Hamas captured hundreds of hostages in the Oct. 7 assault, the families of captives who had been lobbying for their relatives\u2019 release for years joined forces with relatives of the newer hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. al-Sayed\u2019s father, Shaban al-Sayed, said that the family was awaiting his son\u2019s return with deep anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know in what condition he\u2019ll return,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for him \u2014 and when we see him, we\u2019ll know how much we have to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-1c06ad1a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Avera Mengistu<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-nss59b e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">A cutout poster of Avera Mengistu at a site in Tel Aviv.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Hannah Mckay\/Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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\">Mr. Mengistu, now 38, is the longest-held living Israeli hostage in Gaza. In 2014, nearly two weeks after a cease-fire ended a 50-day war between Israel and Hamas, Mr. Mengistu was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aDZ_kGBjzXE&amp;ab_channel=Haaretz%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">seen in security camera footage<\/a> walking along the beach before crossing a fence dividing Israel from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Born in Ethiopia, Mr. Mengistu immigrated to Israel with his family when he was 5 and lived in the coastal city of Ashkelon, some 10 miles north of Gaza. His older brother <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/tv-ilana_dayan\/2017\/Article-bdf7ac643c10261006.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told Israeli media<\/a> that Mr. Mengistu had been deeply affected by the death of another sibling and faced serious mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Mengistu was apparently last seen in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/16\/world\/middleeast\/avera-mengistu-video-israel-gaza-hamas.html\" title=\"\">video released by Hamas in January 2023<\/a>, though the footage could not be independently verified. As with Mr. al-Sayed, Human Rights Watch later assessed that he was a civilian with a history of mental health problems.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-3f322364\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Omer Shem Tov<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">A sign calling for the release of Omer Shem Tov in Tel Aviv.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Leon Neal\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Omer Shem Tov was 20 when he was abducted alongside two friends at the Nova music festival. His friends \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/25\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hostages-released-saturday.html?\" title=\"\">Maya Regev<\/a> and her brother, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2024\/08\/14\/admin\/israel-hostages-released\" title=\"\">Itay Regev<\/a> \u2014 were released during a weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas in November 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In December 2023, after their release, the Regevs <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/09\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hostages-stories-videos.html\" title=\"\">appeared in a video together<\/a> wearing T-shirts that bore the face of Mr. Shem Tov, pleading for his return. \u201cEvery day there is like hell,\u201d Ms. Regev said from a wheelchair, having undergone surgeries for a gunshot wound in her leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI have a friend named Omer, and I really, really miss him,\u201d Itay said. \u201cI know what he is going through in there, and I know how frightening it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Shem Tov\u2019s older brother, Amit Shem Tov, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/02\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hostages-tel-aviv-protest.html\" title=\"\">expressed dismay<\/a> after the end of the last truce. \u201cThe end of the cease-fire is the worst thing that could have happened because it seriously delays the release of my brother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-779de385\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Tal Shoham<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">A handout photograph of Tal Shoham.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Bring Them Home Now<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tal Shoham was 38 when he was captured from Kibbutz Be\u2019eri. His wife, Adi Shoham, and their son and daughter, ages 8 and 3 at the time, were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/25\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hostages-released-saturday.html\" title=\"\">freed in the first cease-fire deal<\/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\">Early last year, Mr. Shoham\u2019s father, Gilad Korngold, was among <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/22\/world\/middleeast\/israel-parliament-hamas-hostages-protest.html\" title=\"\">a group of relatives of hostages<\/a> who burst into an Israeli Parliament meeting to demand action on the abductees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe danger is increasing every day that passes,\u201d Mr. Korngold said in an interview afterward. \u201cIsrael and the relevant countries in the region need to sit at the table \u2014 without eating or sleeping \u2014 and make this terrible situation end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the first anniversary of the attack, Mr. Shoham\u2019s family was still waiting. His mother, Nitza Korngold, like other Israelis frustrated with the government\u2019s lack of progress on a hostage release agreement, boycotted the official ceremony and attended <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/07\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-oct-7-anniversary-vigils.html\" title=\"\">an alternative commemoration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy dear Tal, if you can see or hear me, we all miss you so much,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are doing everything to bring you and all the hostages home soon. We will not give up on you.\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 \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/22\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-free-hostages-hamas.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas released six more hostages on Saturday as part of its cease-fire deal with Israel, the last living captives 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