In detail | About 60 Israeli hostages are still imprisoned in the strip, of which at least 35 are dead
The new proposal of Alto El Fuego presented by the US, which Israel has accepted and that Hamas is studying, contemplates the release of 28 Israeli hostages that remain captive in the strip in exchange for a high fire of 60 days. The Islamist militia, according to the plan, would commit to release in the first week of truce 10 hostages alive and 18 dead. Israeli authorities estimate that 58 hostages still remain in Gaza, of which at least 35 are dead. We review the key moments of the hostage crisis from the terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
October 7, 2023: Hamas militiamen, killing 1,200 people and kidnap another 251.
October 20, 2023: Hamas releases, Israeli and American.
October 23, 2023: Hamas releases the two elderly hostages.
October 30, 2023: The Israeli army manages to rescue a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
November 21, 2023: Israel and Hamas announce a high fire that will last just a week. The militia releases around half of the hostages women, minors and foreigners – in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
December 15, 2023: The Israeli army to three hostages in Gaza.
February 12, 2024: The Israeli army during an operation in Rafah, in the south of the enclave.
June 8, 2024: The Israeli army, in the center of Gaza.
August 27, 2024: Israeli troops rescue a hostage retained in a tunnel in southern Gaza.
August 31, 2024: The Israeli military discover in a tunnel in Hamas, in southern Gaza.
December 2, 2024: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, threatens with Si Hamás does not release all hostages.
January 8, 2025: The Israeli army discovers the bodies of an Israeli-Keduino hostage and his son in a Gaza tunnel.
January 19, 2025: A new fire enters into force, whose first phase lasts six weeks. That day, Hamas releases: the British-Israelí Emily Damari (28 years old), Romi Gonen (24 years) and Doron Steinbrecher (31 years) in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners.
January 24, 2025: They return to Israel for the Islamist movement during the Matanza of October 7, 2023: Naama Levy (20 years), Daniella Gilboa (20 years), Karina Ariev (20 years) and Liri Albag (19 years).
January 30, 2025: Hamas delivers three Israeli hostages – the Military Agam Berger, 20; Arbel Yehud, 29; and Gadi Moshe, 80 – and five Thai workers, in an initially not scheduled in the high fire agreement. Israel, meanwhile, releases 110 Palestinian prisoners.
February 1, 2025: Hamas releases the American-Israeli citizen, Keith Siegel (65 years old), Offer Calderon (54 years) and (35 years) in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners.
February 7, 2025: Hamas releases Ohad Ben Ami, 56; Eli Sharabi, 52, and Or Levy, 34, in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners. The three civilians appeared after 491 days of captivity, raising Israel’s protests.
February 15, 2025: Hamas releases others – Salexander Trufanov, 29; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, and Iair Horn, 46—, while Israel delivers 369 prisoners.
February 20, 2025: Hamas gives to four hostages dead in one that moves Israel. This is Shiri Bibas and his children Ariel and Kfir – who today would be five and two years respectively, the youngest of the more than 250 hostages taken in the attack of October 7, 2023 – and Oded Lifshitz, 83. Israeli authorities determine that Shiri Bibas’s coffin contains the mortal remains of Gazatí.
February 22, 2025: Hamas delivers the body that Israel identifies as that of Shiri Bibas. The militia also releases such a Shoham – 40 years old and also Austrian passport – Avera Mengistu, 39; Eliya Cohen, 27; Omer Wenkert, 23; and Omer Shem Tov, 22; Hisham to Sayed. Two of them had been kidnapped before October 7, 2023. Israel decides to suspend the release of 600 prisoners until there are guarantee security in hostage delivery.
February 26, 2025: Hamás delivers the bodies of four —saji Idan, Itzik Elgrat, Shlomo Mantzur and Ohad Yahalomi. The exchange is carried out without ceremonies, unlike the previous ones, after Israel and Hamas achieved an agreement in this regard. Israel releases 642 Palestinian prisoners.
May 12, 2025: Hamas gives the Israeli-American hostage, the only one with nationality of that country that is still alive.
