Hostages return to Israel as 39 Palestinians are freed

An Israeli-Hamamaean cease-fire plan for next-to-Leading order in the Second World War II: a closer look

The temporary cease-fire between the Israelis and Hamas is expected to begin on Friday. Here is a closer look at how the agreement is expected to play out.

There will be a four-day pause in hostilities. Fifty women and children would be exchanged for 150 Palestinian women and children in Israeli jails.

The lists of the hostages and prisoners will be given to both Israel and Hamas on a daily basis, according to Mr. al-Ansari. He said that the International Committee of the Red Cross would be designated to receive the hostages, though he gave no further detail on the group’s role or where the hostages would cross the border.

Israel will not fly over the southern part of Gaza during the duration of the cease fire, and will not fly over the northern part of it for six hours a day.

An Israeli official who spoke on a condition of anonymity said on Wednesday hostages would be taken to hospitals and seriously injured people would be transported by helicopter. The officials said older hostages will be met by their families at hospitals and the younger ones will be met by their families at the border.

The Palestinians who will be freed from Israeli prisons will be taken to their districts by bus, the official said. It was unclear whether they, too, would be set free in stages, but the official said the first would be released before any Israeli hostages.

The prime minister’s office said it had received a list of the hostages who were going to be released and contacted their families. It did not specify how many names were on that list.

All the names on the list were described as “security prisoners,” or people who had been arrested in connection with offenses against national security. The prisoners were accused of things like throwing stones and supporting terrorism. There are also several charges of attempted murder. Most of the prisoners on the list had not been convicted of the charges.

The Return of Ms. Katzir, the Daughter of Holocaust-Survivors, and a Victim of the Israeli Attack on Nir Oz

She said on Friday night that she was still concerned for the other captives in Gaza and noted that Israeli soldiers were on the ground.

Driving through the lush fields that month with this reporter, he would only stop the car behind clumps of trees or bushes as cover in case of sniper fire.

Like many of the hostages, Ms. Katzir, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, is returning to a very different life. She was married to a man who was killed in the attack on Nir Oz. Her son, Elad, 47, was also kidnapped and remains in Gaza. The residents of the ravaged communities along the border will not have a home to call their own for the foreseeable future.

Founded by the pioneers of socialist labor Zionism in 1955, seven years after the establishment of the state of Israel, the wheat and potato fields of Nir Oz stretch up to the security fence that Israel constructed around the Palestinian coastal enclave, and that was breached in about 30 locations on Oct. 7. The minarets and water towers of the Palestinian village of Abasan rise beyond the fence.

There are kids here with no parents, parents with no kids, parents with no kids, and grandparents with no kids, but a survivor said.

The Hamas-led attack on the civilian population of Eilat, a Palestinian coastal enclave in southern Israel, killed on Oct. 7

It was a poignant moment for many. In the Hamas-led assault of Oct. 7 in southern Israel, armed assailants surged across the border from Gaza and killed about 1,200 people, the majority of them civilians, according to Israeli officials — making it the deadliest day in Israel’s 75-year-history. The abductors took about 260 more captives into the Palestinian coastal enclave.

At a hotel in Eilat where many of the residents of Nir Oz are staying, after their evacuation from the border area, elation was tempered by a wider feeling of loss.

Twelve of those newly released were among the roughly 75 people who had been kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7. One of the 13 was among those taken from Kibbutz Nirim.

Ms. Katzenellenbogen felt a mixture of happiness for her aunt’s return from captivity but also concern for her physical and mental health when she was released.

The Israeli authorities informed Ms. Katzir’s family late Thursday that she was on the list to be freed on Friday, and they were surprised to hear that she was alive.

Islamic Jihad said in the days after the attack it would give evidence, but never did.

Astonished, the nation watched as Hanna Katzir, 76, a grandmother of six from Kibbutz Nir Oz who usually uses a walker, was helped on unsteady feet out of an ambulance.

Many Israelis stayed glued to television screens all afternoon and evening, catching first glimpses of those being released through the windows of the Red Cross ambulances transporting them across the border from Gaza into Egypt, then watching their first steps as they emerged from captivity into freedom. They were confirmed by the Israeli authorities once they were liberated.

The families of the hostages are my new family and I wont celebrate until they return from captivity.

It is permitted to be happy, as well as tear up. In a video recording soon after he was home with his wife and their daughters, Yoni Asher said that it was true that that was human. The girls and Ms. Katz Asher were kidnapped in the middle of the night by two men near the Gaza border.

The assault took place when Keren Munder and her son, Ohad Munder ZICHri, were visiting her parents in Israel near the Gaza border.

Ruth and Abraham’s son, Roee, 50, was killed during the attack. Ohad had a birthday on Oct. 23, which was his ninth. Abraham, 78, is believed to still be held in Gaza.

Ms. Moshe was last seen on Oct. 7 between two gunmen on a motorcycle being driven into Gaza. She was kidnapped from her safe room in Kibbutz Nir Oz after her husband, Sa’id Moshe, was killed during the Hamas assault.

Naama Ben-Dvora, Ms. Moshe’s niece, told an Israeli broadcaster that she felt “a sense of very, very great relief, and happiness and hope, of course, that every one of them will come home.”

Ms. Adar is said to have been involved in the search for kibbutz Nir Oz in the fifties. She was kidnapped with her grandson Tamir Adar, 38, who remains in captivity.

A photograph of Ms. Adar’s abduction became one of the defining images of the attack. She was photographed wrapped in a pink blanket as she sat in a golf cart that was driven by militants into Gaza.

Ms. Peri, one of five people who were captured on Oct. 7 from Kibbutz Nirim, immigrated to Israel from South Africa in the 1960s and has lived at Nirim ever since. Ms. Peri worked at the community’s grocery store. One of her children was killed in the assault and another is thought to be captive in Gaza.

The Hostages Family Forum is a nongovernmental organization advocating for the release of the hostages and supporting their families, and it is stated that Ms. Pere has diabetes and vision loss in one eye, and she likes taking tai chi classes.

A nature lover and a cancer survivor, Ms. Moses, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, also has diabetes and other chronic health problems, according to the Hostages Family Forum.

The forum said that she loves hiking despite her poor health. She plans to visit Mozambique this winter, after traveling to Norway in the summer.

Ms. Katz Asher was abducted with her two young daughters, Raz and Aviv Asher, and her mother, Efrat Katz, 67, while they were staying at her mother’s home in Kibbutz Nir Oz. The Katz Ashers hold dual German citizenship.

On October 7th, Yoni Asher was the one that she called to say there were terrorists in her mother’s home.

Later, he spotted all four of his relatives in a video posted on social media, which showed them being driven through Gaza on the back of a pickup truck. Mr. Asher knew that the phone was in southern Gaza.