First 3 Israeli hostages released in Gaza ceasefire

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In the first weeks of the war, her mother expressed concern that Israeli military action in Gaza could endanger the hostages.

Romi Gonen’s older sister, Yarden, told the New York Times in February that she regularly went to the square in Tel Aviv where the families of the hostages held vigils.

“None of us are doing anything related to our past lives,” she said.

Ms Demari, who was 27 at the time of her capture, is the only British hostage still in custody. She was taken from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel. She saw the neighbor in her own car Driving to Gaza, driven by a gunman.

Ms Demari grew up in Israel but travels to Britain often, where her English-born mother, Mandy Demari, was in Israel in December to speak to authorities and news media and plead for a hostage and ceasefire deal. Her son had been shot and she said she feared for her life. He told the BBC. President-elect Donald J. She welcomed Trump’s threat during his inauguration that there would be “hell to pay” if no deal was reached.

Hostage Dafna Eliakim, who was released from Gaza in January, told an Israeli news channel that she and her younger sister were taken to Hamas underground tunnels where they met other female hostages, including Ms. Demari.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Mandy Damari spoke An event in Hyde Park She described her son as a football fan in London who enjoyed a drink and “a typical British joke, with some Israeli chutzpah thrown in nicely.”

Arrested from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Ms. Steinbrecher, 30, is a Romanian-Israeli veterinary nurse. As he says Israeli news mediaShe was meeting her family at the kibbutz when the gunmen attacked, telling her parents that they had broken windows and shot into her room.

“Come, tell me,” she said in a subsequent voicemail to her friends.

Last January, Hamas released a video clip in which Miss Steinbrecher and two other detainees, Daniella Gilboa and Karina Ariyev, pleaded for their release.

Last March, on her 31st birthday, Jewish News Syndicate She published an interview with her mother, Simona Steinbrecher, who appeared pale and thin in the video. Ms. Steinbrecher said she was concerned about not getting the daily medication she needed, although she did not specify what that was.

“She’s a strong woman, but it’s horrible to be there,” says Simona Steinbrecher.