Israel-Hamas war
Who has been released so far?
Guardianship staff and agencies
Monday, November 27, 2023, 12:34 p.m. GMT
Friday
Munder family: Keren, 54, her son Ohad, 9, and her mother Ruth, 78
Ohad Munder, 9, meets his father, brother and family members at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Israel. Photo: AP
Ohad lived to be nine years old in captivity. He loves Rubik’s cubes. His mother, who teaches children with special needs, was visiting relatives in Nir Oz on the day of the Hamas attack. Ruth was a librarian and seamstress before retiring.
Ohad’s grandfather Avraham, 78, remains captive in Gaza. His uncle – Ruth and Avraham’s son – Roee, 50, was killed in the attack.
Asher family: Doron Katz-Asher, 34, her daughters Raz, 4, and Aviv, 2
Aviv Asher, 2, her sister Raz, 4, and mother Doron meet Yoni, Raz and Aviv’s father and Doron’s husband. Photo: Schneider Children’s Medical Center spokesman/Portal
Doron, an accountant, lives in Ganot Hadar. At the time of the attack, she was visiting relatives in Nir Oz and the family’s abduction was captured on video posted on social media. Her mother, Efrat Katz, was killed on October 7th.
Efrat’s partner Gadi Mozes was kidnapped along with his ex-wife Margalit Mozes. She was among those released on Friday.
Aloni family: Danielle, 45, and her daughter AMilia, 5
Danielle and Amelia Aloni, 6, meet family members. Photo: AP
The couple visited Danielle’s sister Sharon Aloni-Cunio in Nir Oz. The entire extended family was kidnapped, including Sharon, her husband David Cunio and three-year-old twins Emma and Yuli.
Danielle was one of three women in a hostage video released by Hamas late last month.
Yaffa Adar, 85
Yaffa Adar, 85, is reunited with her family. Photo: X
Adar is one of the founders of Nir Oz. A video of her being driven toward Gaza in a golf cart, wrapped in a pink blanket and guarded by armed Hamas fighters, became a symbol of the hostage situation for many in Israel. She has three children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. One of her grandchildren, Tamir Adar (38), remains a hostage.
Chana Katzir, 76
Chana Katzir. Photo: AP
Katzir, another founder of Nir Oz, had worked on the child care team there and her husband Rami was a tractor mechanic. They had three children and six grandchildren. Rami was killed in her safe room on October 7 and one of her sons, Elad, was also kidnapped.
Chana, who uses a walker, appeared in a hostage video on November 9th. Islamic Jihad claimed she died in captivity just days before her release.
Chana Peri, 79
Chana Peri. Photo: AP
Peri, a retired shopkeeper, was the only Israeli hostage released Friday who was not from Nir Oz. Born in South Africa, she moved to Israel as a young woman and settled on Kibbutz Nirim, where she had three children.
One son, Roey, was killed on October 7 and their other son, Nadav, is being held hostage. Her daughter Ayelet is in Israel. Peri has diabetes.
Adina Moshe. 72
Adina Moshe. Photo: Hostages and Missing Families Forum/Portal
Moshe’s husband Sa’id (David) was murdered in their home in Nir Oz before she was kidnapped. Video footage showed her being driven to Gaza on a motorcycle between two Hamas fighters. As a mother of four children, her hobbies include cooking and gardening.
Margalit Mozes, 77
Margalit Mozes. Photo: AP
Mozes, a cancer survivor with diabetes and fibromyalgia, an avid hiker, bird watcher and traveler, was kidnapped along with her ex-husband.
Saturday
Hila Rotem Shoshani, 13
Hila Rotem Shoshani, 13, hugs her uncle in a hospital in Israel after being released by Hamas. Photo: Israeli Army/AFP/Getty Images
Hila was kidnapped along with her mother Raya and her friend Emily (see below). Raya was not released. Hila told Israeli media that they were held hostage together until two days ago.
Emily Hand, 9
Emily Hand, 9, hugs her father after his discharge from a hospital in Israel. Photo: Israeli Army/AFP/Getty Images
Emily was staying at Hila’s house when she was kidnapped. According to her father, the young Israeli-Irish girl celebrated her ninth birthday in captivity on November 17th.
Shoshan Haran, 67, her daughter Adina Shoham, 38, and Adina’s children Yahel, 3, and Naveh, 8
Shoshan Haran, Adina, Naveh (8) and Yahel (3) after their release by Hamas. Photo: Office of the Israeli Prime Minister/Portal
All were kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri while Shoham and her children were visiting Haran. Shoham and her children also have dual German citizenship through Adina’s father, Avshalom Haran, who was killed in the attack.
Sharon Avigdori, 52, and her daughter Noam, 12
Sharon Avigdori. Photo: Hostages and Missing Families Forum/Portal
Shoham’s aunt Sharon Avigdori, a psychologist, and her daughter Noam were also visiting Haran.
Noam Avigdori, 12. Photo: Handout/Family Collection
Shiri Weiss, 53, and her daughter Noga Weiss, 18
Shiri Weiss, left, and her daughter Noga. Photo: Hamas Media Office/AFP/Getty Images
Weiss, a 53-year-old accountant, and daughter Noga were kidnapped from their home on Kibbutz Be’eri. According to her relatives, with whom Noga was in contact via WhatsApp during the attack, the young woman hid under a bed when her mother was kidnapped.
Driven away by the smoke that filled her house, she tried to hide outside, where she was discovered. Her father, Ilan Weiss, had left his house at dawn that day to defend his kibbutz. He was also taken hostage.
Alma Or, 13. Photo: AP
Siblings Noam Or, 17and Alma Or, 13
Noam Or, 17. Photo: AP
The two teenagers were kidnapped from the Be’eri kibbutz, accompanied by their father Dror Or and their 18-year-old cousin Liam. Her mother Yonat was killed in the attack. Her older brother Yahli, who is serving in the military in northern Israel, was not at home. Ahal Besorai, the teenagers’ uncle, said they only learned their mother had been killed after they were released.
Maya Regev, 21
Regev was kidnapped along with her younger brother Itay, 18, as they tried to escape the Nova music festival. She was hit by gunfire while she was on the phone with her father, who tried in vain to trace her whereabouts.
A few hours later, the siblings were seen tied to the back of a pickup truck in a video circulating online. Maya and Itay are originally from Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, and had returned to Israel the day before after celebrating their mother’s birthday abroad. Itay has not yet been released.
Maya Regev. Photo: Hamas Media Office/AFP/Getty Images
Sunday
Elma Avraham, 84
The artist was on the phone with a neighbor on October 7 when armed men broke into her home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
Elma Avraham.
Her son Uri Rawitz, with whom she had also spoken previously, said Elma failed to lock the door to the safe room in her home.
Uri later received a photo of his mother being taken away on a motorcycle by armed fighters along with another hostage.
Avraham’s second son, who also lives in Nahal Oz, escaped the attack.
On Sunday, Avraham was transferred to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, southern Israel, whose director, Shlomi Kodesh, said she was “in life-threatening condition.”
Aviva Siegel, 62
Aviva seal.
Siegel was abducted from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza along with her American husband Keith, 64, who is still being held.
Aviva, a teacher, was born in South Africa but moved to Israel when she was eight. The couple has four children and five grandchildren.
Hagar Brodetz, 40, and her children Ofri10, Yuval8th, And Oria,
Hagar Brodetz
Hagar Brodetz’s husband, Avihai Brodetz, said he was trying to defend Kibbutz Kfar Aza when his wife and their three children were kidnapped.
Yuval, 8. Photo: Hostages And Missing Families Forum/ReutersOfri, 10. Photo: Hostages and Missing Families Forum/AP
A few days later, he learned that they had survived the attack but had been kidnapped along with Avigail, a neighbor’s child who had taken refuge in their house.
Oria, 4 Photo: Schneider Children’S Medical Center/Portal
Ofri, the eldest child, celebrated her 10th birthday in captivity in Gaza. Her younger brothers Yuval and Oria are 8 and 4 years old.
Avigail Idan, 4
After witnessing her parents killed in Kfar Aza, Avigail, who has U.S. citizenship, fled to the Brodetz family and was kidnapped with them.
Avigail Idan.
Michael and Amalya, her brother and sister, escaped the attack by hiding in a closet.
Avigail celebrated her fourth birthday on Friday in Gaza.
Chen Almog-Goldstein and her children Agam (17), Gal (11) and Tal (9).
Chen Goldstein Almog.
The 48-year-old social worker Almog-Goldstein was kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza with three of her four children.
Tal Goldstein Almog, 9, left, and his brother Gal, 11. Photo: Israeli Prime Minister’s Office/AP
The children’s father, Nadav Goldstein, and Yam, the eldest daughter, were killed in the attack.
Agam Goldstein-Almog, 17 Photo: Hostages and Missing Families Forum/Portal
They are members of the family of Doron Almog, a former senior army officer and current chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, a nonprofit organization that encourages Jews to immigrate to Israel.
Sisters Dafna Elyakim, 15 and Ela, 8
Dafna Elyakim, 15.
The sisters were kidnapped from their father Noam Elyakim’s home on Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
The day after the attack, her mother, Maayan Zin, saw a photo on WhatsApp of Dafna “sitting on a mattress in Gaza in her pajamas.”
Ela Elyakim, 8. Photo: Hostages and Missing Families Forum/AP
The bodies of the girls’ father, his partner Dikla and their son Tomer were found riddled with bullets in an empty lot. Before he was shot, 17-year-old Tomer had been ordered by militants to go door-to-door and speak in Hebrew to persuade his neighbors to leave their shelters. According to media reports, Ela and Dafna also have Hungarian citizenship.
Ron Krivoy, 25
The Russian-Israeli worked as a sound engineer at the Nova music festival attacked by the militants.
Ron Krivoy.
He initially managed to escape and hide in a ditch, his sister Julia told Israeli media, but around midday an Arabic-speaking person answered his phone.
Krivoy was born in Israel as the youngest of three siblings and, according to his father, had survived two car accidents and a fall into a sewer.
Hamas said his release occurred outside the ceasefire agreement with Israel.
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report
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