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Lerato Khumalo

Waffenruhe in the Middle East

Finally free: which hostages are now back in Israel

Updated on January 25th, 2025 – 12:49 p.m.Reading time: 3 min.

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Finally in freedom: the four young soldiers. (Source: Abed Hajjar/AP/dpa/dpa pictures)

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Almost a week after the beginning of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist organization has released other people kidnapped from Israel. Who are the four women?

The Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip has released four more hostages. The soldiers at the age of 19 and 20 had been kidnapped during the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023. At noon the women were back in Israel, where they met their relatives.

At that time, disturbing bodycam recordings of the terrorists from October 7 showed the injured, partly blood-blurred young women. The Israel women, who were in the border area to the Gaza Strip scouts of the army, seemed completely frightened. The kidnappers repeatedly shouted at the bound women and threatened them. The worst scenes were not published at all.

15 scouts were said to have been killed in the unprecedented attack, and seven were kidnapped. One of the women was saved from the Gaza Strip after 23 days, and another was killed in captivity. Her body was recovered from the Gaza Strip by the army. Another woman who is not on the list remains for the time being in the violence of Hamas.

The government published recordings at noon how the parents cheer and scream with joy while seeing videos of the handover of their daughters to the Israeli army. They are these four women:

According to reports, 19-year-old Liri Albag had just started working as a scout when terrorists attacked the base in Hahel OZ. According to Israeli media, the hostage, which was liberated in summer, reported that she and Albag were forced to do homework. Accordingly, the young soldier was captured in a tunnel, got salty water to drink and little to eat. She was also allowed to shower for the first time a month after her kidnapping.

In January, Hamas released another video of the woman who looks pale in it and begs around her release. “She is no longer the same girl,” said her mother Shira afterwards Israeli media. Her once confident and fearless daughter looked scared.

According to Israeli media, Israelin Karina Ariev called her relatives from the base on the morning of October 7th. The 20-year-old said that her family should live on her life. She also sent her sister a message and asked her to take care of her parents and be strong if the soldier should not survive the attack.

On the recordings of the Islamists, the young woman can be seen how she is only being kidnapped with a pajamas. According to Israeli media, her parents expressed the fear of her daughter in hostile sexualized violence and could become pregnant.

Naama Levy is another scout of the military observer troop, whose members had in vain before the Hamas terrorist robbery, in vain for suspicious activities in the Gaza Strip.

The 20-year-old can be seen on the recordings of the day of her kidnapping from a military base with tied hands and blood-smeared trousers. This fueled fears that women could also have become victims of sexual violence.

Her mother informed Israeli media that she constantly imagined moments after her daughter’s return. She speaks with her in my thoughts.

The 20-year-old worked as a teenager on an Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative. She said to her kidnappers: “I have friends in Palestine.” It was of no use to her.

The soldier Daniella Gilboa, also kidnapped by the army base in Nahal Oz, is apparently injured on the leg on the shots of the kidnapping and limping. It was seen in several hostage videos spread by Hamas. She was terrified for her life, said the 20 -year -old woman in one of them. She informed her family in making her missing her.

In November 2024, Hamas announced that an Israeline kidnapped in the Gaza Strip was killed in an attack by the Israeli army. She also spread recordings that should show a tattoo of the hosted hostage, among other things. At that time there were reports that it was Gilboa. Israel did not confirm this claim.

According to Israeli media, the young woman plays the piano and dreams of becoming a singer.