From left to right: Romi Gonen, Emily Tehila Damari and Doron Steinbrecher.
AFP
The Israeli army has recovered the three Israeli hostages released by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and soldiers from an elite unit are “accompanying them towards Israeli territory”, according to a military statement published late Sunday afternoon. noon.
“The three freed hostages were transferred to army forces and are accompanied by a special unit en route to Israeli territory, where they will undergo a first medical examination,” the text indicates.
Earlier, the Forum of Israeli Hostage Families confirmed to AFP the names of the three young women, including a British-Israeli, to be released during the first exchange with Palestinian prisoners provided for by the truce agreement between Israel and Hamas.
They are Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, captured on kibbutz Kfar Aza, and Romi Gonen, 24, kidnapped at the Nova music festival, the Forum confirmed to AFP. All three are Israeli and Emily Damari also has British nationality.
Romi Gonen
“They shot me, mom, I’m bleeding!” Taking refuge in a car to escape the attackers at the Nova music festival, Romi Gonen stayed on the phone with her mother, Meirav Leshem Gonen, until 11 a.m., when the connection was cut.
The car was found empty and the phone of Romi, who lives in Kfar Vradim (northern Israel), was blocked in the Gaza Strip.
Romi Gonen likes to dance a lot, according to those close to him.
She is injured in the hand according to her mother, who said she obtained this information as well as proof of life from released hostages.
-Emily Damari
British-Israeli Emily Damari was kidnapped from the youth neighborhood of Kfar Aza, a kibbutz where she grew up and lived.
According to her mother, she is “always smiling and optimistic.”
The last proof of Emily Damari’s life was given by Agam Goldstein, hostage released during a first truce in November 2023.
Emily Damari is a supporter of the British football club Tottenham. She loves karaoke nights and barbecues.
Doron Steinbrecher
Doron Steinbrecher, a veterinary nurse kidnapped at the age of 30, herself warned her parents, by a voice message sent late in the morning of October 7, that she had been taken by the attackers.
His parents and the family of his sister Amit, who lives in the same kibbutz Kfar Aza, escaped the attack.
Miraculously for the parents, whose garden served as the attackers’ headquarters, the latter did not attempt to break into their home.
The young woman is of Israeli and Romanian nationality.
(LF with afp)
