Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #13

[PommyMommy]

At least Three different Hostage Transfers are reported to have occurred in the Gaza Strip during today’s Release; 12 Hostages who were Younger were directly Handed-Over to the IDF at the Karni Border Crossing in Northern Gaza with 1 Elderly Hostage being Airlifted by Helicopter straight to a Hospital due to her Serious Medical Condition, while 4 other Hostages were Transferred through the Rafah Border Crossing into Egypt.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728815076612653190

 

[JennieM]

Hostage handover took place in northern Gaza, eyewitnesses tell the BBC​

According to eyewitnesses inside Gaza, the released Israeli hostages have been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the north of Gaza rather than in the south, for the first time.

The handover to the ICRC, which has been designated to act as an intermediary, was reported to the BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abu Alouf, reporting from Istanbul.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67527098

 

[Momoffourboys]

Today, 4-year-old Abigail Idan returned to Israel from captivity, the camera of her father, our editorial member Roi Idan, was photographed this evening in Hatavim Square in memory of Roi ⁩ . Roy still had time to photograph the drones and update the desk at 7:10 in the morning before he was murdered along with his wife Samdar. A journalist in every inch of his body.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728815832099152196

 

[JennieM]

Cries of joy as Israeli TV show images of released hostages​

Joel Gunter
Reporting from Tel Aviv

BBCCopyright: BBC

Cries of joy and applause rang out in an auditorium at a hotel just north of Tel Aviv in the past few minutes as the first footage of the hostages appeared on screen, now safely in the hands Israeli military.

The people staying at this hotel are all former residents of Kfar Aza, the kibbutz that was home to the hostages being released tonight.

As each image of a released hostage was shown in the big screen, there were more cries and more applause. People grabbed one another and hugged.

“We were so terrified up until the last minute that something was going to go wrong,” said Elinor Bitton Bariach, 48, a friend of some of the families getting loved ones home.

“But now we are thrilled and happy, the excitement is unbelievable. It is a small community and this moment means everything to us.”

There are still nine people from the Kfar Aza community among the hostages in Gaza.

“It is not over, it is not the full happiness yet,” Elinor said.

“But we are here for each other. We will be a big community again.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67527098

 

[Momoffourboys]

President Biden on the release of 4-year-old Abigail Idan: "She is free and she is in Israel. She was in terrible trauma - her mother and father were murdered before her eyes." He also added: "More Americans are expected to be released from captivity."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728821385521488134

 

[PommyMommy]

7:00 pm

Woman from Nahal Oz says she feels ‘happiness filled with suspense’ at latest hostage release​

Israelis await the arrival of 13 Israeli hostages released by Hamas on the third day of the four-day ceasefire, November 26, 2023. (Screenshot)

Yael Raz-Lahiani is feeling “happiness filled with suspense” as news breaks of the return to Israel of three members of her Kibbutz Nahal Oz, as part of a group of 14 Israelis who are back from captivity in Gaza.

“We are breathing three sighs of relief. But we are not relieved, not until all seven members of the kibbutz who have been abducted are back,” says Raz-Lahiani, a mother of three, at a press conference at Kibbutz Mishmar Ha’emek near Afula.

Living here are most of the surviving members of Nahal Oz, a small kibbutz of about 400 where 14 people were murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7.

 

[JennieM]

2m ago

“She’s free and she’s in Israel now,” Joe Biden said of 4-year old Abigail Edan – a dual US-Israeli citizen - who was released by Hamas on Sunday alongside 16 other hostages.

“What she endured is unthinkable,” he said, adding that he expects additional Americans to be released by Hamas as well.

Syria says Israeli strikes put Damascus airport out of service – as it happened

This blog is now closed

www.theguardian.com

 

[Arkay]

Dbm

 

[Momoffourboys]

Between Ofakim and Hatzirim. Awaiting the kidnapped who are expected to pass through here. The excitement is at its peak

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728819815148912725

 

[PommyMommy]

15min ago

Biden to call Netanyahu today to discuss ongoing hostage deal, says White House​

US President Joe Biden will call Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later today to discuss the ongoing truce and hostage deal, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan tells NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

This will be Biden’s 15th call with Netanyahu since the start of the war.

Sullivan stresses that Biden has been personally engaged in the hostage deal negotiations, again calling Qatar’s emir yesterday following Hamas’s delay in freeing the second group of hostages.

9min ago

Gallant says IDF has killed more than 100 Hezbollah members so far during war​

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says the IDF has killed more than 100 Hezbollah members, and destroyed dozens of its observation posts, weapons depots and other sites amid the fighting in northern Israel.

“The combination of all these tactical achievements will translate into a different situation, which will later allow the return of the residents [of northern Israel] under completely different conditions than when we started this campaign,” Gallant says following an assessment in northern Israel.

 

[Momoffourboys]

The 2-state solution is the only way to achieve peace in this area.
We will not stop working to reach this solution.
I'm so excited to see Abigail release.
I wish I could be there physically to hug her.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728822307022688733

 

[margarita25]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1711513305854943442

 

[Momoffourboys]

6 of the 9 children released today HAVE LOST ONE OR BOTH PARENTS in the Oct. 7 massacre.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728825523181420650

 

[Momoffourboys]

Jeeps with kids, moms, and elderly leaving Gaza and entering Israel. Soon to be untied with families and be told about fathers & more relatives who were murdered

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728826560906715275

 

[Vern]

Israel Tv reports she is critically wounded. After 50 days.

That's 102 war crimes.

Taken as a hostage;
Forcibly relocated a a hostage;
50 days as a hostage; and
50 days on non access to her by the ICRC IAW International Law.

It'll be another if she received no medical treatment while in terrorist captivity.

Palestine acceded to Conventions I-IV and Protocol I in April 2014.[32] In January 2015 Palestine acceded to Protocols II and III.[33]

 

[Momoffourboys]

(First Jeep is transporting Alma on a stretcher with medical team)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728826847721558233

 

[PommyMommy]

8min ago

Kfar Aza evacuees celebrate release of loved ones, demand rest be freed from Gaza​

Hundreds of people are crowded into an event hall at Shefayim, waiting with bated breath for news of the latest hostage release.

Most are evacuees from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, home to the majority of the 14 Israeli hostages just released from 51 days of Hamas captivity.

Shachar Tzuk-Bazak, 32, who personally survived the October 7 massacre because she was away on a family vacation, but lost two family members to Hamas, says that she is “overjoyed” that several Kfar Aza residents were freed this evening, but holds the Israeli government and military responsible for both the failure that led to their capture and the failure to return the about 200 hostages remaining in Gaza.

“I’m overjoyed, but with every person being released, there is another person in captivity,” she says, adding that 19 people were kidnapped from Kfar Aza. “Half of them are getting released today and half of them are still in the cold, in the dark.”

[...]

Freed hostages Abigail Idan and Uriah Brodutch, both 4, are also from Kfar Aza. Tzuk-Barak says she wants to thank diplomats “for helping to get my nephew’s friends from kindergarten back.”

 

[PommyMommy]

(First Jeep is transporting Alma on a stretcher with medical team)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728826847721558233

Special prayers for Alma. 84 years old!

MOO

 

[PommyMommy]

8min ago

Photos emerge of hostages crossing into Israel on Red Cross jeeps​

4-year-old Avigail Idan seen in a Red Cross ambulance along with the several other hostages released by Hamas on the third day of the 4-day ceasefire with Israel, November 26, 2023. (Screenshot)

First photos emerge of Israeli hostages crossing into Israel on Red Cross jeeps.
In the photos, 4-year-old Avigail Idan, whose parents were both murdered on October 7, can be seen in the back of a jeep, as can 15-year-old Dafna Elyakim, who is arriving with her sister.


Dafna Elyakim, 15, seen in the Red Cross ambulance leaving Gaza, along with several other hostages released by Hamas on the third day of the 4-day ceasefire with Israel, November 26, 2023. (Screenshot)

Fourteen Israelis and 3 Thai nationals were released this evening in the third group of hostages feed by Hamas from Gaza as part of the truce deal.

 

[Momoffourboys]

Thai workers who were abducted from Israel and one Israeli-Russian citizen who worked at the Nova Music festival, returned through the southern Rafah crossing, Egypt and into Israel after 51d in captivity by the terrorist

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728828828011905326