2023-11-24 21:10:00
Adina Moshe, 72, was the first hostage to cross the Rafah crossing point, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in the company of ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) teams. She was kidnapped from the Nir oz kibbutz, while her husband was assassinated by Hamas terrorists.
Behind her, Margalit Mozes, a neighbor from this community of Nir oz. Aged 77 and in poor health, she plans to “travel to Mozambique this winter,” declared the Hostage Families Forum on Friday evening. She has dual Israeli and German nationality, like three other members of the same family, passing through Nir oz for the Shabbat of October 7.
The vast majority of the thirteen Israeli hostages who were released Friday evening, after 49 days of captivity, lived in the kibbutz of Nir oz, which had around 400 inhabitants before the attack which ravaged it. For the family of Hannah Katzir, 77, released today, this is unexpected news. Islamic Jihad, an armed organization allied to Hamas which holds several hostages, announced his death several days ago. For Danielle Aloni’s, it’s half a relief. This 44-year-old woman appeared on a Hamas propaganda video. She was released with her daughter Emilia, 6 years old. But his sister, his brother-in-law and their 3-year-old twins remain detained.
READ ALSO Attack on Israel: rape, Hamas’ weapon of warFour children were among these first hostages released. Ohad Monder, 9 years old, returned from Gaza with his mother Keren and his grandmother Ruthy, the “kibbutz bookseller”. In total, the agreement between Israel and Hamas provides for the release of around thirty children, out of the 38 held in Gaza.
“Bring back all the hostages”
“We have just successfully returned our first hostages,” declared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Each of them is a whole world. But I tell you, we are determined to bring back all the hostages. »
The first of four days of truce between Israel and Hamas allowed a total of 24 hostages to emerge, out of a total of 236, a higher number than was initially announced. Thirteen Israeli hostages were released, which had been planned by Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, which oversees the implementation of the agreement. They were transferred by helicopter to the Hatzerim base, near Beersheba, then to Tel Aviv, where six hospitals had been mobilized to accommodate them.
But another negotiation, between Thailand and Iran, with the help of Egypt, also allowed the release of 10 Thai workers and one Filipino, without compensation. Thousands of Thai workers worked on farms in southern Israel before October 7. Twenty-one of them were killed by Hamas. Other Thai nationals could also be handed over by Hamas in the coming days.
READ ALSO Gaza: where are the belligerents after a month of ground offensive?As stipulated in the agreement reached earlier this week by Qatar, the Israeli prison services waited two hours after Israel received the hostages, then they released 39 Palestinian prisoners who had been transferred to Ofer prison , near Jerusalem, earlier today. They were then returned to the West Bank, on the other side of the separation wall, under the control of the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli army. Among them are teenagers aged 14 to 18 and several women convicted of knife attacks. The Minister of National Security and leader of the Israeli far right, Itamar Ben Gvir, announced that he would severely punish any demonstration of joy after these releases.
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