The hostages Tal Shoham and Avera Mengistu got on stage set up by Hamas in Rafah Help yourself to walk from militants. The two, on the cars of the Red Cross, arrived in Israel to be delivered to the armed forces. The other four prisoners who will be released today are Omer Shem-Tov, Eliya Cohen, Omer WeNkert and Hisham Al-Sayed.
Avera Mengistu was held prisoner by Hamas for over a decade, the living Israeli hostage longer detained. The 28 -year -old Israeli Jew of Ethiopian origin had entered Gaza in 2014, crossing the border near Zikim Beach, just north of the strip. Tal Shoham on October 7 was visiting the Kibbutz Beeri With his wife Adi and their two children, three years of Yahel and ship of eight. Shoham, his wife, their children and four other family members were taken to Gaza. Adi and children were released in November 2023.
The Bibas family said that the experts of the Israel legal medicine institute identified Shiri’s body, the mother of the little Kfir and Ariel. “We received the news that we feared the most: our Shiri was assassinated in captivity,” family members wrote this morning on social bing bibas back accounts. The woman “Now has returned home to her children to rest”, reads the declaration.
The Kibbutz where Shiri was kidnapped in the attack against Israel of 7 October 2023 confirmed the woman’s death. “We announce the assassination of Shiri Bibas with deep pain and condolence, killed during the captivity in Gaza,” said Kibbutz Nir Oz in a press release.
The liberation of the hostages to Gaza “takes place in a majestic national scene, which reflects the unity of our people and our factions, while the occupation is experiencing a state of fragmentation and exchange of accusations”, said Hamas. “The enormous public presence during the delivery of the six prisoners today brings a message renewed to the enemy and its supporters: the cohesion between our people and its resistance is rooted and solid,” added the Palestinian group.
Hamas also reiterated that he is “ready to move on to the second phase of the agreement, with the desire to complete” the liberation of the hostages, in exchange for “a ceased the permanent fire and a complete retreat” by Israel Dalla Striscia.
The fighters of the Al-Qaassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, have been lined up from this morning, report it Arab and Palestinian media. In the photos published by Quds News Network you can see files of armed militiamen and covered with a guard that are guarding a stage decorated with propaganda banners. And another similar stage was set up in the refugee camp of Nuseirat, in the center of the Palestinian encyca, second local media cited by the Arab broadcaster at Jazeera.
On the stage prepared by Hamas in Rafah there are the usual signs with messages including “we are the flood”, as well as weapons and military equipment that the group supports were stolen from the IDF on 7 October 2023. The belt of one of the machine guns is marked with the word “Ravshatz”, the Jewish acronym for the head of the local security team of a community, to indicate that it was taken to an individual Gender killed by terrorists during the attack of 7 October. The Times of Israel writes it.