Hamas launched 11 Israeli hostages — all girls and kids taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz — on Monday, the fourth day of the cease-fire, based on the Israeli authorities.
The brand new releases adopted an preliminary launch of 13 Israelis on Friday, 13 more late on Saturday and 14 on Sunday. A few of these launched are twin nationals.
An official briefed on the negotiations mentioned that avoiding household separation was vital for the Israelis and that their considerations had escalated as the ultimate day of the preliminary truce started on Monday. Two units of siblings returned with their moms to Israel late on Monday, however their fathers had been believed to nonetheless be held in Gaza.
Right here’s what we all know concerning the Israeli residents launched on Monday.
Sharon Alony Cunio, 34, and her 3-year-old twins, Emma Cunio and Yuli Cunio
Sharon Alony Cunio, her husband, David Cunio, and their 3-year-old twins, Emma and Yuli, had been hiding of their bomb shelter in Kibbutz Nir Ounceswith Sharon’s sister, Danielle Alony, and her 5-year-old daughter, Amelia, after they had been taken hostage on Oct. 7. The final message their household obtained from them on WhatsApp learn, “Assist, we’re dying.”
Their members of the family, together with a cousin, Alana Zeitchik, have shared their story and pleaded for his or her launch in conferences with political leaders world wide.
Danielle and Amelia Alony had been released on Friday.
Ms. Zeitchik described Emma and Yuli as “the happiest twins you can ever think about.” Their cousin Amelia, Ms. Zeitchik mentioned, is the star of the household. “She’s this sharp, witty intelligent little woman, you’ll be able to’t actually get something previous her.”
“The harm that has been finished to those kids, this struggling and ache, it doesn’t finish with their launch,” she mentioned, including, “Their return is shrouded in a variety of ache and trauma.”
David Cunio, 33, is believed to nonetheless be in Gaza.
Karina Engelbert, 51; Mika Engel, 18; Yuval Engel, 11
Karina Engelbert, 51, and her total household, together with her husband, Ronen Engel, 54, and their daughters, Mika, 18, and Yuval, 11, had been taken from the secure room inside their house on Kibbutz Nir Oz.
When she was taken, Ms. Engelbert was still recovering from a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgical procedure that had gone awry. She was weak and simply fatigued, and a buildup of painful scar tissue on her chest triggered tightness, limiting her mobility.
“We don’t know if she’s getting any medical therapy, if anybody is taking good care of her, if she is getting any ache aid or any of the medicine she must maintain the most cancers from coming again,” Ms. Engelbert’s brother Diego Engelbert mentioned final week.
Ronen Engel is believed to nonetheless be in Gaza.
Eitan Yahalomi, 12
Eitan and his household went to their secure room when the alarms first went off at Kibbutz Nir Oz.
When the information reached the Yahalomi household that Hamas was going home to deal with, Eitan’s father, Ohad, sat in entrance of the household’s secure room. The door was damaged, Efrat Avsker, Ohad’s sister, mentioned, and he tried to stop Hamas from getting into.
“There was some negotiation between Ohad and the terrorists,” Ms. Avsker mentioned, “They shot him in his leg and his arm.”
The attackers took Eitan’s mom, Bat-Sheva, and all three kids — Liel, 1, Yael, 10, and Eitan — leaving Ohad behind.
“They noticed him on the ground bleeding,” Ms. Avsker mentioned of Ohad’s household, “and he advised them that he loves them.”
Eitan was separated from his mom and sisters and pushed into Gaza. Bat-Sheva and her daughters managed to flee and conceal in a subject, Ms. Avsker mentioned.
The household later discovered that Ohad had been kidnapped, too.
“Ohad’s household, and most of these individuals in these kibbutzim, are those who believed in peace,” Ms. Avsker mentioned. “They needed peace. They believed in coexistence.”
Ohad Yahalomi is believed to stay in Gaza.
Erez Kalderon, 12; Sahar Kalderon, 16
Ofer Kalderon, 53, his 16-year-old daughter, Sahar, and his 12-year-old son, Erez, had been seized from their household house in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Gaya Kalderon, 21, final heard from her sister, Sahar, on the morning of Oct. 7, when she despatched a textual content message saying they had been in hiding and had left their home.
A day later, Gaya noticed a video on Instagram of a kid being shoved down a path. It was her brother, Erez — the primary signal of her lacking family members she’d seen.
The kids’s mom, Hadas Kalderon, later visited the house the place they and her ex-husband had been taken from, which had been diminished to scorched rubble. Some relics of the household house, together with an image of Erez, remained. Her mom and niece had been discovered useless close to the kibbutz.
Ofer Kalderon is believed to stay in Gaza.
Or Yaakov, 16; Yagil Yaakov, 12
Or Yaakov, 16; a brother, Yagil, 12; their father, Yair, 59, and his girlfriend, Meirav Tal, 53, had been all taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Or Yaakov has a life-threatening peanut allergy and will die if uncovered to small quantities of peanut powder, according to Dr. Arnon Elizur, who spoke publicly in current weeks to attract consideration to the plight of hostages with medical situations. Yagil appeared in a hostage video launched on Nov. 9 by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an armed group based mostly in Gaza.
“You possibly can acknowledge him, however his eyes are —” his cousin, Sheffa Phillips-Bahat mentioned, pausing, “— they appear like he went by so many issues so shortly. Simply a lot much less life in them.”
Neither Yair Yaakov nor Meirav Tal had been launched with Or and Yagil.
Nadav Gavrielov contributed reporting.
