Who are the 13 Israeli hostages released by the Islamist group Hamas?
On October 7, their lives were shattered and they went through hell in the middle of the war.. Some 240 people were kidnapped in the Hamas attack on the music festival near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, where they were taken.
Forty-nine days later, Israel and the Islamist group have reached a four-day truce pact with which 13 kidnapped Israelis have been able to return to their homes, in addition to 11 Thais, a Filipino citizen and 39 Palestinian prisoners.. These are the names of the nine women, the three girls and the boy released this Friday by the Palestinian Islamist group.
The families have revealed the identity of Adina Moshe, 72, and Margalit Moses, 78, in addition to that of four other elderly women, who were part of the first group of hostages that has already arrived in Israel.
Twelve of the thirteen released lived in the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the hardest hit in the Hamas attack, which kidnapped almost 80 people there.
Hamas and Israel reached an agreement that 50 kidnapped people will be released in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners, in both cases all of them women and minors (boys and girls).
Among those released this Friday were also Danielle Aloni and her 5-year-old daughter Emilia, who were in the Nir Oz kibbutz at Danielle's sister's house when Hamas terrorists attacked, killing more than 1,200. people.
Her sister, Sharon Aloni-Cunio, was also kidnapped along with her two twin daughters and their father, David Cunio, who remain in the hands of the Islamist group.
Ruth Mundar, 78, her daughter, Keren Mundar, 54, and her grandson, Ohad Mundar, 9, have also been released.
Others who have returned are Doron Katz-Asher, 34, and his two daughters Raz and Aviv, 4 and 2 years old respectively.
The released minors are 2, 4, 5 and 9 years old.
Among the elderly women handed over by Hamas to Israel is also 85-year-old Yaffa Adar, whose video of her being transported by Hamas fighters in a golf cart went viral.