Palestinian Group Hamas handed over three more Israeli hostages on Saturday, after about 500 days of imprisonment, as part of the ongoing ceasefire deal with Israel. Three hostages – Eli Shabi, or Levi and Ohad Ben Ami’s pride shocked Israeli, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Hamas officials as a “monster” and promised to destroy the group.
Prior to his release, three men were designed to attend the Hamas-directed handover ceremony, which included the hostage answering the questions generated by a masked man, as fighters equipped with automated rifles were standing on each side . During the ceremony broadcasting Live, three people appeared thin, weak and yellow, even worse than 18 other hostages, already freed under the Trus, agreed to 15 months after the war in January.
“He looked like a skeleton, it was terrible to see,” Ohad Ben Ami’s mother -in -law, Mishhal Cohen, told Channel 13 News that she used to watch the handover ceremony at home.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the sight of the froil hostage was shocking and would be addressed. Netanyahu said in a video statement, “We will eliminate Hamas, and we will return our hostages,” In a video statement, after the handover condemning terrorists as “demons”, after the handover, during which all three are weak Men were forced to speak on stage.
Later, Israel’s official social media has been released before and after pictures of three men, and said, “There are no words.”
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– Israel שראל (@israel) 8 February, 2025
‘Poor medical health’
After handing over to the International Committee of Red Cross in Gaza, the hostages were then taken to Israeli forces and Israel, where they were tears with family members, and were sent to hospitals.
Ohd Ben Ami, who was taken hostage from Kibutz Berry during Hamas -led attacks on Southern Israel on 7 October, 2023, has returned home from Gaza in “serious nutritional status”.
Gill Fire, Deputy Director of Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv, said, “In the initial medical evaluation, it is clear that the OHAD returned to a serious nutritional position and lost a significant amount of his body weight.” He was “flexible in the soul”.
The other two people or Levi and Ellie Shabi returned to the “poor” medical condition, hospital where they are receiving care.
“The results of 491 long days of prisone in captivity are evident on the two returns that are coming today and their medical condition is bad. It is the fourth time in the current structure that we have received a return and the situation is more serious this time,” Frenkel NIR, director of Yale Sheba Hospital, told reporters.
Ellie Shabi was also taken hostage from the Kibutz Betteri with Ohad Ben Ami, while Levi was abducted from the Nova Music Festival that day.
Hamas released three more Israeli hostages on Saturday, after about 500 days of imprisonment, the Humanitarian Assistance Organization Red Cross. The three hostages – Eli Shabi, or Levi and Ohad Ben Ami – were released as part of the ongoing ceasefire deal with Israel.
Emotional reunion
The three people later removed the reunion of their intimate family from media headlines, but were filmed and photographed by Israeli officials. “I left XXL and returned to the medium,” 56 -year -old jokingly said, who had lost a significant amount of weight in captivity, according to doctors in the hospital.
Very thin Ohad Ben Ami found the strength to run towards her daughters, even cracked a joke during her emotional reunion, which was filled with both happiness and tears.
“We miss you a lot,” Levi’s mother, Gella, said she hugged her son.
But some hostages face a painful return. Shabi’s two teenage daughters and his British-birth wife were killed in a Hamas attack on Kibutaz Beri, where one of the 10 residents was killed. Israel’s Channel 12 said that Shabi was not told about his deaths and asked where he was when he arrived.
Wrapped in an Israeli flag, Shabi was welcomed with tears by his two sisters and brothers at Sheeba Hospital in Ramat Gana, covered with a talith, Jewish prayer shawl. The reunion of the levy with his family was a calm, marked by a long hug and crying.
Prisoner swap
In return for the release of hostages, Israel freed 183 Palestinian prisoners, some convicts of participation in attacks, who killed dozens of people, as well as 111 detained in Gaza during the war.
Out of those issued, 41 West Banks returned to the city Ramllah, four were released to Israel-Einxed East Jerusalem, 131 were sent to Gaza and seven were sent to Egypt. However, their families were forbidden to celebrate their return by Israeli forces.
In a statement, the Israeli army said that “the message was given that the ceremonies and processions in support of the terrorists were prohibited during the release of terrorists”.
In Ramallah, one prisoner was helped to remove one medicine in the arms of a drug, while the other placed his oxygen bottle. Palestinian prisoner club chief Abdullah al-Zagri said that seven of the free prisoners were transferred to the hospital.
He said, “All the prisoners released today require medical care, treatment and examinations as a result of cruelty during the previous months.”
