The OR Levy hostage, which was released this Saturday at Hamas, was certified as Sephardic by the Jewish community of Porto, a requirement necessary to acquire Portuguese citizenship.
Hamas released on Saturday morning three Israeli hostages that kidnapped on October 7, 2023, when he attacked Israel and triggered an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Israel, in turn, will free 183 Palestinians.
Os three hostages released by the Palestinian extremist group HamasThis Saturday were delivered to the International Red Cross (CVI) in Deir Al-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, according to images broadcast live by various television channels.
Or Levy34 years old, with connections to Portugal; Eli sharabi52 years old; and Israelo-German Ohad ben am56 – were released after 16 months of captivity in the Gaza Strip. Each of them left a white car from Hamas.
The three were taken to a stage set by Hamas where before CVI staff signed the hostage reception documents.
Tortured, starved and frail, the Israeli hostages Eli, Or Levy are finally being released, but not before one last macabre display by the Hamas monsters.
Soon, they will be free again!
– Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@ostrov_a)
These images recall the Jews during the release of Auschwitz. The hostages are unbearable thinness, haggard, it is absolutely excruciating.
The only genocide was committed on October 7, by Hamas. 🎗️🇮🇱
– Jérémo 🎗️ (@jeremo12)
Or Levy and the links to Portugal
The hostage or Levy was Certificate as a Sephardic by the Jewish community of Portorequirement necessary to acquire Portuguese citizenship.
“Or Levy was certified by the Porto Jewish community, as his paternal grandparents spoke rogue and belonged to a traditional family of Istanbul in Turkey, which took the path of Israel in the twentieth century,” the president of Lusa told Lusa the president of community, Gabriel Senderowicz.
According to the head of the Porto Jewish community, in November 2023 -when or was already retained in the Gaza Strip -its legal representatives and Israel’s own embassy in Portugal “requested the Lisbon Central Records Conservatory that the process urgently ”.
“We believe that the applicant will have obtained nationalityonce the legal requirements met, ”added Senderowicz.
“It is a man of great virtues that we want to see soon to pray in Sefarad’s greatest synagogue,” said the president of the Jewish community of Porto.
Or Levy was kidnapped at the new music festival During the Hamas attack on Israelite territory, on October 7, 2023, Having his wife, Eynav, has been killed.
The other two hostages: Ohad Ben Ami, 56, was kidnapped with his wife, Raz Ben Ami (already released), from ‘Kibutz’ (community) Beeri; Eli Sharabi, 53, lost their children and the woman in Hamas’s attack on the same ‘kibibutz’.
On the 1st, Luso-Franco-Israeli, which obtained Portuguese nationality for its Sephardic origin, after being hostage, on October 7, 2023.
Israel liberates 183 prisoners
In return, Israel will free 183 Palestinian prisoners -In what is the fifth exchange since the entry into force of a ceasefire agreement.
According to the Palestinian Prison Club, an NGO responsible for the issue, the group released “18 prisoners condemned to death, 54 with long feathers and 111 detainees in Gaza after October 7 [de 2023]”Said the organization’s spokesman, Amani Sarahneh, quoted by international agencies.
Dozens of Hamas armed combatants, with green masks and ribbons on the head, positioned themselves early in the morning at Deir El-Balah, in the center of Palestinian territory, before the start of the operation.
They formed a cord of isolation around a zone where the movement set up a stage with photographs of destroyed Israelite armored vehicles, green flags of the movement and photographs of dead commanders.
🚨 Hamas is preparing to deliver hostages in the center of Gaza.
– 3rd World War (@ww3mediaa)
Nearby, white vans from Hamas were parked, according to the French agency AFP.
In Israel
Hundreds of people were expected to watch the live broadcast of hostages at the “Praça dos Hostilos”, in Telavive.
A giant screen was installed on site, telling the days, hours, minutes and seconds since the unprecedented attack of Hamas to Israel on October 7, 2023, when the hostages were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.
Doubts, finally dissipated On Friday night, they hung over the operation, taking into account the shock waves caused by the US President Donald Trump’s proposal of.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will accompany the process from the United States, where he is visited.
The exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners this Saturday will be the fifth since the entry into force of the truce, on January 19, after 15 months of war.
To date, 18 hostages were released and about 600 Palestinian prisoners.
Fifteen months of war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip caused more than 47,000 dead and a high level of infrastructure destruction in the territory controlled by the Palestinian extremist group since 2007.
The Israeli offensive was triggered by an attack by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused about 1,200 dead and the abduction of 250 people who were taken hostage to the Gaza Strip.
The fighting ceased on January 19, as part of a ceasefire agreement negotiated by several mediators (United States, Qatar and Egypt).
