According to its terms, the ceasefire agreement concluded last week between the Jewish State and the Palestinian Islamist group (the second in fifteen months of war) should allow the release of a total of 33 Israeli hostages and 1,890 detained Palestinian prisoners. by Israel. The list of Israelis released during this first phase of forty-two days (or six weeks) includes in particular women, civilians or soldiers, children and men over 50 years old.
While at least 630 humanitarian aid trucks have entered (according to the UN) since Sunday into the devastated Palestinian territory, here is what we know about the personalities of the first hostages released, according to information given among others by the Forum families of the hostages and the missing.
The joy of the families of the three hostages released, after 471 days of captivity (VIDEOS)
Romi Gonen, a 24-year-old dancer living in Kfar Vradim (northern Israel), was at the Nova music festival in Reim (near the Gaza Strip) on October 7, 2023 when she was kidnapped during the attack by Hamas militants. Her friends and family (she has four siblings) described her as energetic, funny, family-oriented and full of life. She had been hiding with friends for five hours and was on the phone with her family when fighters attacked them. The last words his mother, Merav, said she heard from him that day were: “I was shot at, the car is hit, everyone is hit… I’m injured, I’m bleeding. Mom, I think I’m going to die.” Then, there was this sentence, terse, uttered in the background by the attackers: “She’s alive, let’s take her”. His cell phone was later stranded in an unspecified location in the Gaza Strip. Emily Damari, 28, is a British-Israeli citizen described as a central and beloved figure in Kfar Aza, a farming village on the border with Gaza. A lover of hats, football, karaoke nights and hats, she lived in a neighborhood for young adults, very close to Palestinian territory. She was kidnapped from her home with her friends Gali and Ziv Berman (twins, still in captivity) when her kibbutz was stormed on October 7 by Hamas fighters.
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Doron Steinbrecher, a 31-year-old Israeli-Romanian veterinary nurse, has been caring for animals since childhood, when she helped at the school petting zoo. She loves sports, especially running, and used to run on Saturdays early in the morning in her kibbutz of Kfar Aza. She has a sister, Yamit, and a brother, Dor, and her family describes her as a devoted person, particularly loved by her nephews. During the attack, she tried to hide under her bed and was in contact by telephone with her mother. She just had time to send a final voice message, where she said these words three times: “They got me”. Doron appeared in the company of two soldiers, in a video published by Hamas, almost a year ago, on January 26, 2024. A sign of life which, according to his brother, had restored and maintained the hope of those close to him to find her safe and sound.
