On Saturday, Hamas freed three other Israeli hostages in a ceremony, which is characterized by some of the same provocative theatrics used by the Palestinian militants in previous publications.
It was the sixth round of a tense series of exchanges that were part of the participation A 42-day ceasefire business Between Israel and Hamas, the last month came into force. In total, Hamas agreed to publish 33 of the almost 100 people who were captured on October 7, 2023. In return, Israel agreed to free more than 1,000 Palestinians in his prisons and partially withdraw from the Gaza.
Here is a closer look at the three civilian male hostages, including an Israeli American who was released on Saturday:
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Mr. Dekel-Chen, an Israeli American who had played for Israel’s national basketball team, was 35 years of attack on October 7, 2023.
He is the father of three children; His youngest child was born during his captivity. Mr. Dekel-Chen worked as a national coordinator for the British branch of the Jewish National Fund and converted buses for new uses with his wife. B. for mobile classrooms.
The family of Mr. Dekel-Schen was active for a ceasefire company. His father, Jonathan Dekel -chen, a history professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, wrote A opinion for the New York Times Critical to the Israeli government because he did not bring the hostages home.
In August, the professor of the time said that he and other members of the NIR OZ Kibbuz would not do this take part in an official government ceremony Then plan to remind the attack on October 7th. He said they were “horrified by the idea that this government will create a ceremony that would distract from their guilt”.
The mother of Mr. Dekel-Chens, Neomit Dekel-Schen and some neighbors were also captured in the attack on October 7th. She escaped from an electric car that drove towards Gaza when an Israeli military helicopter shot the militants, according to an Israeli military helicopter, so A report she gave to Israeli news media.
Isiir Horn
Mr. Horn was 45 years old when he was kidnapped by Nir Oz with one of his two brothers Eisan, who was visiting for the weekend. Isiir Horn worked under construction and his brother worked as a teacher.
Isiir Horn was born in Israel and grew up in Argentina. According to her mother Ruth Strom, he returned to Israel as an adult together with his parents and siblings. You are part of a big one Argentine community At the Kibbutz, including other families who are waiting for the return of hostages.
Eisan Horn was not intended for release in the first phase of the ceasefire, and Ms. Strom said that she was concerned that isiir would do it Must leave his brother behind.
Her father Itzik Horn wrongly said in December 2023 after the Israeli military Shot and killed three hostages Anyone who had fled their kidnappers in Gaza has to achieve a deal, even if it means to free prisoners who are designated as terrorists.
“The most important thing is not to defeat Hamas”, ” he said in an interview. “The only win here is to bring all the hostages back.”
Sasha Troubanov
Mr. Troubanov, a Russian Israeli dual citizen who was 27 years old, visited the family in Nir Oz on October 7. published during an earlier ceasefirein November 2023.
Mr. Troubanov, who lived with his girlfriend in a suburb of Tel Aviv and worked in one Company owned by AmazonWas saw in a video Appeared in November last year from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad – the second most powerful militant group in Gaza – after Hamas. He looked tired with an unknown beard and bags under his eyes and spoke of a lack of food and water.
A senor Hamas civil servant in October, said Russia today That he had talked to the Islamic jihad about Mr. Troubanov and that Hamas would give him priority in every exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners of President Vladimir V. Putin from Russia.
