From October 7, 2023, four people were held hostage in Gaza, and according to the platform of hostages and missing families, are expected to be free on Saturday under the Israel-Humas Trus.
Since the entry of the January 19 ceasefire, 19 Israeli and double national hostages have been freed, as five Thai hostages have been issued outside the agreement.
Under the first phase of the Accord 33 hostages, eight of which have been declared dead, are being exchanged in early March in exchange for the release of about 1,900 Palestinians detained by Israel.
Due to release on Saturday, the bodies of four dead prisoners along with six are to be renamed on Thursday.
There are six six to be freed on Saturday:
– Elia Cohen, 27 –
Originally attended the Nova Music Festival with Tzur accident near Jerusalem, Alia Cohen, now 27, Ziva Abud, who survived the 7 October attack.
Cohen worked in marketing and real estate, and was captured with three other youth hiding in a shelter on the edge of the Gaza strip.
Abaud said that he had heard Kohen shouting that he was killed before kidnapping.
– Omer Shem tow, 22 –
Omar Shem Tove, a computer programmer who turned 22 in captivity, when Hamas attacked, was also at the Nova Music Festival with Seema.
In regular contact with his parents, he looked more in a nervousness as “according to a video statement of his father Malki Shem Tove”. When he was taken to Gaza, he lost contacts. A video posted by Hamas on Telegram confirmed that he was in Gaza, his parents identified him for his tattoo.
Shem Tov, who is asthma, lived in Herzlia to the north of Tel Aviv before his possession.
– Taal Shohm, 40 –
In the end of January, Israel-Austrian dual reached National 40. He was abducted with his wife and the family was expanded to Biri Kibutz, where he went to meet relatives.
Software developer and volunteer first-eirs are still the only member of the family organized-others were freed during the first truss in November 2023.
Three members of Shohm’s family died in the October 7, 2023 attack.
– Omar Venkart, 23 –
The eldest of the four children, Omar Venkart, an Israel-Arrkertonian, who turned 23 in captivity, attended the Nova festival with his friend Kim Damati, who was killed in an attack.
Venkart worked as a restaurant manager and friends described him as “joyful with a infectious energy” according to the platform of the hostages and missing families.
He is suffering from a chronic disease, and the final proof he was alive was given by a hostage free in November 2023 Trus.
Before being abducted, Venkart’s last message to his mother was: “I am scared of death”.
– Hishm al -Sed, 37 –
It is believed that a Bedouin Hishm al-Side of Israeli’s nationality is believed to have been held in Gaza, as he entered his own territory in 2015.
A hostage for nearly 10 years, he turned 37 years old on 15 February.
He was missing for a year when his photo appeared on Hamas Television in April 2016. Human Rights Watch said that he was seen crossing Gaza in April 2015 by monitoring systems.
He first lived with his family in the Negev desert in Southern Israel.
His parents say that they have schizophrenia and need daily medicine. Relatives said that he went missing several times in Jordan and Egypt before handing over to Israeli officials. He also said that he entered the Gaza Strip in 2010 and 2013 and was expelled by Hamas due to his mental state.
In June 2022, Hamas published a video on Telegram, showing Syed on a bed under an artificial breathing.
– Avrahm Mengistu, 38 –
Avrahm Mengistu, known by the surname average, is an Israeli Jew of Ethiopian origin, the authorities asked to suffer from mental disorders. He has been hostage in Gaza for more than 10 years.
He was filmed by an Israeli security camera on 7 September 2014, which had entered Gaza shortly after the last Israel’s aggressive aggressive.
His kidnapping, which initially went to pay attention, was declared by Israel in July 2015.
Born in Ethiopia, he arrived in Israel in May 1991 at the age of five, including more than 14,000 people, who were transferred from Ethiopia to Israel in 36 hours.
His family moved to Ashkelon in Southern Israel, where he lived before his kidnapping.
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