The relatives of six Israeli hostages confirm that they will be released on Saturday alive
Who are the six hostages that Hamas will release this Saturday?
Hamas and the forum that brings together the majority of families of the captives have confirmed throughout the week the names of the six hostages that the militia plans to deliver this Saturday. This is the last six alive of the 33 scheduled in the first phase of the Alto El Fuego Agreement, which entered into force on January 19. It’s about Elijah Cohen, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wennkert, Hisham Al-Sayed y Would you be mengist. In return, Israel is expected to give 602 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. Four dead hostages included in the agreements of the first phase of the truce, which join the other four kidnapped dead and delivered on Thursday, are still in the hands of the Islamist militia.
Cohen, 27; Tov, 22, and Wenkert, 23, were captured while attending the Nova Music Festival, which was held in the early hours of October 7, 2023 about three kilometers from the border with Gaza. At that festival 364 people were killed, one in ten attendees. There were another 200 injured and 40 hostages taken to Gaza.
Shoham, 40, was kidnapped at Kibutz Beeri with his wife, two children and his mother -in -law, who were already released. Some 340 Gazati, among militiamen and civilians, assaulted this agricultural community. There 101 people were killed, 10% of the population of this town raised four kilometers from the strip.
The other two, whom Hamas considers “soldiers”, were captured many years before. Al-Sayed, 36, is an Israeli Bedouin with mental problems, according to the families forum, which crossed Gaza by his own foot in 2015. Mengistu, 39 and born in Ethiopia, resides since the age of five in Israel And, in 2014, he entered the strip through Zikim Beach. The two have remained quite forgotten for years and their fate has ended up linked to that of the rest of hostages.
