Two Israeli hostages and the five Thai were delivered to the Red Cross, the IDF and the Shin Bet report it. The kidnapped seven are now brought to the meeting point with the Israeli army inside the Gaza Strip.
Soldatess Agam Berger was first delivered by Hamas to the Red Cross. It emerged from the rubble of Jabalia, was first conducted on the stage set up for his liberation from Hamas and greeted. The Idf spokesman, for his part, reported that the liberated soldier is traveling to the meeting point with the Israeli army.
The Israeli army and the Shin Bet reported that an elite unit accompanied Berger to Israel, where a first medical evaluation will take place. The soldier is meeting the parents in Reem’s base after 482 days in captivity.
On stage, the Red Cross signed a delivery document. Agam, dressed with a complete olive green, which should remember a military uniform, held the framed certificate in his hand that was delivered to her by the terrorists, who made themselves taken by the cameras and photographing by other militiamen.
In the images broadcast by Arabic TV, Berger, surrounded by dozens of armed men and a crowd of Gazawi, at the time of his release, appeared smiling, able to walk alone.
The point where the soldier was freed, kidnapped by the military base of Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023, is a dirt disposal in the midst of buildings in rubble, where the destruction caused by the bombings is total. As seen in the images broadcast by Arab TVs. No house has remained standing. Palestinian flags are everywhere.
In Gaza, the release-show already seen last Saturday is repeating when four soldiers were released.
The meeting points chosen by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad for the release of Israeli and Thai hostages today are 3close to the Sinwar house in Khan Yunis, to Beit Laia and Jabalia: in the meeting points, as seen from the images broadcast by Gaza, armed terrorists and faces covered and civilians are conflicting. The militants resume and photograph the scenes, the commanders, the crowd that is collecting. In Gaza, the release-show already seen last Saturday is repeating when four soldiers were released.
The hostages freed today are, in addition to the soldier Berger, the civilians Arbel Yehoud and Gadi Mozes, and also five other Thai citizens kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
The Islamic Jihad claims to have completed the preparations to deliver Yehoud and Mozes to the Red Cross. The Palestinian media, cited by the Times of Israel, report that the delivery will take place outside the ruins of the house of the former leader of Hamas Yahya Sinwar in Khan Youunis. Meanwhile, the Islamist group has published a video of the two hostages that embrace each other. The organization supports was shot during the preparations for their liberation from today’s imprisonment.
“The government of Israel embraces Agam Berger, a soldier of the defense army of Israel. His family has been updated by the competent authorities who is among our strength. The government, together with all the security authorities, will accompany you and his own Family.