New Delhi:
Three Israeli women have been released after 471 days of being held hostage by Hamas. The picture of these three is going viral on social media. According to the information, three Israeli hostages were released on Sunday under the long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in such a situation the question is arising that who are those three women who have been released?
Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday it would release three Israeli female hostages as part of the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Israel. Israel has not confirmed the names of the three women and cannot do so until they are handed over after 4 p.m., but the Hostages and Missing Families Forum has released their names.
The Hostage and Missing Families Forum, which represents the families of the hostages, confirmed that Romy Gonen, 24, Doron Steinbrecher, 31, and Emily Damari, 28, were expected to be released later Sunday.
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Romi Gonen, 23, is a dancer. Hamas gunmen abducted him from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. Gonen spent several hours hiding from the gunmen with several friends before he was shot in the arm. She was on the phone with her family when they heard her say “I’m going to die today”. The attackers were last heard saying in Arabic, “He’s alive, let’s take him.” His phone was later traced to a location in the Gaza Strip.
Doron Steinbrecher
Steinbrecher is a 30-year-old veterinary nurse who was flown to Gaza from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Azza, one of the communities hardest hit by Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel. A few hours after the attack began, she called her parents to tell them that she was scared and that gunmen had come to her building. He then sent a voice message to his friends saying “They are here, they have caught me”.
Emily Damari
Damari, 28, is a British-Israeli who was abducted from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. She grew up in London and is a fan of the Tottenham Hotspur football team. According to his mother, he was shot in the arm, hit by shrapnel in the leg, blindfolded, tied to the back of his car and taken to Gaza.
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