Jerusalem:
Four men held a hostage in Gaza since October 7, 2023, and two others who are being held for about 10 years are expected to be released on Saturday under the Israel-Hamas Armistice, according to the Highnesses and Missages and Missing Families Forum.
Since the entry into force of the cease -the 19 January 19 19 January 19 Israeli and double national hostages have been released, as well as five Thai hostages released outside the agreement.
Under the first phase of the Accord 33 hostages, eight of whom were announced as death, must be exchanged at the beginning of March in exchange for the release of approximately 1,900 Palestinians held by Israel.
In addition to the six for release on Saturday, the bodies of four dead prisoners must be repatriated on Thursday.
The six planned to be released on Saturday are:
– Eliya Cohen, 27 –
Originally from Tzur Hadassah near Jerusalem, Eliya Cohen, now 27, joined the Nova Music Festival with his fiancé, ZIV Aboud, who survived the attack of 7 October.
Cohen worked in marketing and real estate and was captured with three other young men while hiding in a hiding place on the edge of the Gaza Strip.
Aboud said she had heard Cohen that he had touched before he was abducted.
– Omer Shem TOV, 22 –
Omer Shem TOV, a computer programmer who became 22 in captivity, was also at the Nova Music Festival along the border when Hamas attacked.
In regular contact with his parents, he seemed to be “more in panic as the calls progressed”, according to a video report from his father Malki Shem TOV. They lost the contact when he was brought to Gaza. A video posted by Hamas on Telegram confirmed that he was in Gaza, his parents identified him thanks to his tattoos.
Shem TOV, who is asthmatic, lived in Herzliya north of Tel Aviv before his conquest.
– Tal SHOHAMS, 40 –
The Israeli Estrian double national became 40 at the end of January. He was abducted with his wife and extensive family in Beeri Kibbutz where they had visited family members.
The software developer and volunteer First-Aider is the only member of the family who was still held-six others were released during the first ceasefire in November 2023.
Three members of SHOHAM’s family died in the attack of 7 October 2023.
– Omer Wakert, 23 –
The oldest of four children, Omer Wiertert, an Israeli-Argentinian who turned 23 in captivity, went to the Nova festival with his friend Kim Damati, who was murdered in the attack.
Wenkert had worked as a restaurant manager and friends described him as “happy with an infectious energy”, according to the Highthressen and Missing Families Forum.
He suffers from a chronic illness, and the last proof that he was lived by a hostage liberated in the Armistice of November 2023.
Wenkert’s last message to his mother before he was abducted was: “I am afraid of death.”
– Hisham Al -Sayed, 37 –
Hisham Al-Sayed, a Bedouins of Israeli nationality with psychosocial disabilities, is supposed to be held in Gaza since he has gone the territory of his own agreement in 2015.
A hostage for almost 10 years, he became 37 on February 15.
He was missing for a year when his photo appeared on Hamas Television in April 2016. Human Rights Watch then reported that he was noticed by surveillance systems that crossed Gaza in April 2015.
Earlier he lived with his family in the Negev desert in southern Israel.
His parents say he has schizophrenia and needs daily medication. Family members said he was missing several times in Jordan and Egypt before being handed over to the Israeli authorities. They also said that in 2010 and 2013 he entered the Gaza Strip and was driven out by Hamas because of his mental state.
In June 2022, Hamas published a video on Telegram with Sayed on a bed under an artificial mask.
– Avraham Mengistu, 38 –
Avraham Mengistu, known under the nickname Avera, is an Israeli Jew of Ethiopian origin that the authorities have said to suffer from psychological 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 sneaks in Gaza by climbing the barrier, shortly after an earlier Israeli offensive.
His abduction, which initially unnoticed, was announced by Israel in July 2015.
Born in Ethiopia, he arrived in Israel of five years in May 1991 with more than 14,000 people who were transferred from Ethiopia to Israel in 36 hours.
His family moved to Ashkelon, Zuid -Israël, where he lived for his abduction.
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