Through tears and tight hugs, on Saturday, the Israel-American mortgage Sagui Dekele-Charan was freed, finally learned her youngest daughter’s name two months after Hamas was kidnapped in October 2023. In the footage published by the Israeli government, the wife of the Dekele-Charan, Avial, who was shedding tears of happiness after 16 months, told them that the girl’s name was Shah Majal, who was “Lucky Don” in English. Can translate into.
“It’s perfect,” 36 -year -old replied, after moments he was brought back to Israel.
The couple again joined a military base in the south, where Sagui Dekele-Charan was brought with two other hostages-Israeli-Russian Sasha Troopnov, 29, and Israel-Rengentine Jayer Horn, 46-Sixth on Saturday. Released on Saturday. Gaza ceasefire hostage-jail exchange.
During Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, a Kibutz community near the Gaza border, the three people in the NIR Oz, were seized from their homes, which sparked the war.
A statement by the Dekele-Chain family shared by the hostage and missing family stage campaign group said: “Our Sagui is a house. A friend, son, partner and most important thing that a father has returned . “
After about 500 days in captivity, “Now he is finally on Israeli soil, with us,” it said.
“In the coming hours, he will start his rehabilitation process, he will meet his daughters Gali and Bar, and will first meet his younger daughter, Shah, who was born while living in captivity.”
The statement said that the family plans to campaign “until the last mortgage returns home”.
In turn, Israel on Saturday released 369 Palestinian prisoners, most of them were serving a life sentence for attacks against Israel to most residents of Gaza strip detained during the war.
29-year-old Israel-Russian Sasha Trupanov was congratulated by his girlfriend and mother, who threw himself in her arms at the reception point. Later, he expected to be reunited with his grandmother.
The three women were abducted with them, but were released during the first week of Trus in November 2023.
According to Israeli media, it was only after his release that Troopanov learned about his father’s death in the October 2023 attack.
The Yire Horn first met his father with his brother Amos and his mother to see his father before going to Ichilov Hospital in Aviv, who is diabetes like him and just a kidney transplant.
On the way, the helicopter transporting them flew into the stadium of Horne’s beloved Hapoel Barsheva Football Club in southern Israel.
A photographer of AFP told that when he reached the hospital, he wore a club’s red jersey. His brother Eaton Horn is in captivity in Gaza.
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