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The group, which represents the families of the Israeli hostages, confirmed on Friday that the names of three other prisoners are expected to be delivered by Hamas on Saturday, and there is a citizen of the dual United States. Keith Siegel, 65, originally from North Carolina, moved to Israel four decades ago and was among those who were seized during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
Hamas had previously presented three names, and Israeli officials confirmed the receipt of the list, but it was from the missing hostages and families forum that confirmed the identities, saying that it welcomed “happy news related to the expected version of Keith Siegel Pepas and Offer.
The wife of Sigil Aviva Siegel was also transferred during the attack, which witnessed that the gunmen were killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 others as a hostage, but she was released under short power in November 2023 Israel and Hamas.
Speaking to CBS News about a year after her release, Seigel said there were moments as Hamas and her husband fighters forced her through tunnels under the Gaza Strip that they felt that we were “sure that we will die.”
Yarden Pepas, 35, is the husband of Sherry Pipas, who was transferred from Kibbutz with her young children Ariel and Kafir during the terrorist attack. He claimed Hamas A few weeks after the attack in which Sherry and her two children were killed in an Israeli bombing in Gaza.
In a television interview about half a year later, then Israeli government minister, Beni Gantz, indicated that officials knew what happened to the Pepas family, but said he could not provide details. The fact that according to the conditions of the ceasefire, Hamas issued women and children before the male hostages, suggested that the rest of the Yarden Pepas family had already died.
Oreer Calderon, 54, was among the five members of his family, which was seized by Hamas fighters from Kibbutz near the Gaza border on October 7, 2023. She was released During the November ceasefire of that year, two of his cousins were killed.
Talk to CBS Boston Just two weeks ago, Calderon’s cousin Jason Greenberg said he still does not know whether he had died or alive.
“It is difficult to imagine that anyone is able to bear this time for a long time and until the same person returns,” Greenberg said. “If he is alive, this is a miracle.”
The third hostage exchange has been completed, but not smoothly
Eight hostages maintained by Hamas and its allies in Gaza They were released on Thursday In exchange for the release of 110 Palestinian prisoners, in a third swap facilitating the fragile ceasefire agreement that entered on January 19.
The exchange began smoothly with the delivery of the Israeli soldier Ajam Berger, 20. It was delivered in a relatively organized manner in the ruins of the Gabalia Refugee camp in northern Gaza. However, the operation moved to chaos when the Israeli crowds surrounded the largest Israelis and Jews and Jadi Moussa while they were transferred by the militants to the Red Cross employees in southern Gaza, about an hour later.
The Israeli Ministers Office, Benjamin Netanyahu, which delayed the release of Palestinian prisoners for a few hours, said that the brokers in the ceasefire agreement provided guarantees that reserves be taken to ensure the safety of all the additional hostages that were issued under the forefront. deal.
President Trump’s envoy in the Middle East ended Steve Wittouf a visit and left Israel on Thursday after the release of the three hostages. He spent most of the day to visit Gaza, where he went with members of the Israeli Defense Forces, “to inspect the implementation of (the ceasefire), because it is very important.”
“How will this happen will affect our ability to reach the second phase of the deal,” said Witkeov.
The Americans are still detained in Gaza
Seven American citizens, including them, are among the 82 hostages in Gaza, both dead and vital.
Sagoy Dickel Chen, 35, who grew up in Bloomfield, Connecticut, and Alexander, 19, from Tennafli, New Jersey, is alive, while four other Americans were believed to have been killed in captivity.
The Israeli attack for 15 months led the military attack in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, killing more than 4,7,400 people in the pocket, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
The ministry does not distinguish between fighting and civil losses, Israel continued its personalities during the war, but a A study published Earlier in January in the medical magazine Lancet He said the actual losses in Gaza most likely said exceeding 70,000 people.
The entire neighborhoods have been settled in the populated Palestinian territories, and all population, whose population is more than two million, has been displaced from their homes, many of them several times.
