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These are the 24 hostages still held in Gaza who will not be among the four released on Thursday. The remains of 34 others, who have been declared dead by the IDF, are also being held.🧵

From top left:

1. Eitan Horn 2. Segev Kalfon 3. Bipin Joshi 4. Guy Gilboa-Dalal 5. Avinatan Or 6.  Yosef Haim Ohana 7.  Nimrod Cohen 8.  Rom Braslavski 9. Evyatar David 10. David Cunio 11. Tamir Nimrodi 12.  Bar Kupershtein 13.  Gali Berman 14.  Eitan Mor 15.  Edan Alexander 16.  Pinta Nattapong 17. Omri Miran 18. Elkana Buchbut 19. Alon Ohel 20. Matan Zangauker 21.  Ziv Berman 22.  Ariel Cunio 23.  Maxim Herkin 24.  Matan Angrest

1. Eitan Horn (37) was captured alongside his brother Iair, there are serious concerns for his heath.

2. Segev Kalfon (26) was kidnaped from the Nova festival. His family recently received a 'sign of life'.

3. Bipin Joshi (23) of Nepal, was a migrant farm worker. There has been no information about him since his capture.

4. Guy Gilboa-Dalal (22) was kidnaped from the Nova festival. He, along with Evyatar David, were seen in a sickening hostage video from the release event yesterday.

5. Avinatan Or (32), boyfriend of freed hostage Noa Argamani, NVidia employee. He was last seen being dragged off into captivity.

6. Yosef Haim Ohana (24) was kidnapped from the Nova festival, the family recently received a "clear signal that he was still alive."

7. Nimrod Cohen (19), a fighter in a tank division, was kidnapped following the battle at the Nahal Oz base, early in the morning on October 7. He managed to get a message out to his family via released hostages.

8. Rom Braslavski (19), was a security guard at the Nova Festival, and fought bravely for hours to protect others until he was kidnapped into Gaza at about 2pm. Nothing has been heard from him since.

9. Evyatar David (23) was dragged off from the Nova Festival, and had not been heard from until yesterday when he was paraded in a Hamas propaganda video alongside Guy Gilboa-Dalal.

10. David Cunio (33) was taken from the family home in Nir Oz alongside five members of his family, including his brother Ariel, who also remains in captivity. The family recently revealed that a released hostage has seen him alive.

11. Tamir Nimrodi (20) was serving in COGAT, and was captured from the Erez checkpoint and taken into captivity. The family has had no sign of life from him since.

12. Bar Kupershtein (22) was a combat medic in the 932nd Battalion of the Nahal Brigade. He was kidnapped from the Nova Festival, and there has not been heard from since.

13. Gali Berman (27), was kidnapped from Kfar Aza alongside his twin brother Ziv. The family recently confirmed that they had received signs of life for both of them.

14. Eitan Mor (23) was a security guard at the Nova festival, from where he was kidnapped. His family recently revealed that the received a 'sign of life.'

15. Eden Alexander (20), originally from Tenafly, New Jersey, was kidnapped from the battle of the Nahal Oz base. He was featured in a Hamas propaganda video in November 2024.

16. Pinta Nattapong (36) has not been heard from since he was captured, alongside 5 other Thai farm workers, on October 7, 2023. The other five were recently released.

17. Omri Miran was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz during the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. He featured in a propaganda video in April 2024, and released hostages have confirmed that they have seen him alive recently.

18. Elkana Buchbut (35) was kidnapped from the Nova Festival, and the family reported that there has recently been a 'sign of life' from information from released hostages held with him. He fought to protect others during the attack. He is married with a young child.

19. Alon Ohel (24), a pianist, was kidnapped from the same concrete shelter as Hersh Polin-Goldberg, after fleeing the Nova Festival. The family have reported that they recently received a sign of life, with freed hostages revealing that is wounded and permanently shackled.

20. Matan Zangauker (23) was captured from Nir Oz, and was featured in a propaganda video in December 2024.

21. Ziv Berman (27), was kidnapped from Kfar Aza alongside his twin brother Gali. The family recently confirmed that they had received signs of life for both of them.

22. Ariel Cunio (26) was kidnapped alongside his brother David (who remains in captivity too) and other members of their family, and his partner, Arbel Yehoud, recently freed. He has not been heard from since.

23. Maxim Herkin (36), a Russian citizen and new father, was kidnapped from the Nova festival. He has not been heard from since.

24. Matan Angrest (22) was dragged out of a tank and kidnapped into Gaza on October 7, 2023. His family recently revealed that they received a sign of life.

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Six ex-hostages freed from Hamas captivity, arrive in Israeli territory.

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i’m so happy to see the four hostages returned after 500+ day of captivity since 10/7/2023 but seeing hisham and avera home has BROKEN me. 10+ years in gaza!!! i can’t stop crying for them.

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Hisham al-Sayed reunited with his father, BH

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Released hostage Tal Shoham reunites with his family  at an IDF facility near the Gaza border, after 505 days in Hamas captivity, an image released by the IDF shows.

Another picture shows Shoham being airlifted to a hospital in central Israel, while his son holds up a whiteboard reading: "Freedom! It's crazy."

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Omer Shem Tov, welcome back!

"Now everything is OK! Thank you to the dear people of Israel, and to all the soldiers! I want a hamburger": Released hostage Omer Shem Tov is seen being airlifted by an IAF helicopter to a hospital in central Israel.

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How an obscure song from 2001 went viral due to Israeli hostage Omer Wenkert

"What a day I had, Samuel" by the Israeli band 'Hasmachot' became a TikTok hit, 23 years after its release, seemingly for no particular reason. However, it turns out that the cheerful song is a favorite of 22-year-old Omer Wenkert, who was kidnapped into Gaza from the Nova music festival during the Hamas attack on October 7. Gradually, thanks to his family and friends who requested the song on radio stations, it became a hit.

Omer's father says he spoke with Liam Or, one of the Israeli teens abducted and released after 54 days. According to Liam, Omer would sing the song in captivity to maintain optimism. "We also met the Thai workers who were held hostage with Omer and Liam. We arrived with a shirt featuring Omer's face, and they pointed and said 'Samuel, Samuel.' He probably strengthens them a lot there, keeping them optimistic and hopeful," says the father.

source: x

Translation:

What a day I had, Samuel What a day it was, you ask What a day I had, Samuel Not a normal day, a day with a twist It was big, it was one of the biggest this year

What a day I had, Samuel What a day it was, you ask What a day I had, Samuel Not a busy day, a day on the horse*  There hasn't been one like that yet

I started the morning with a song on the balcony Suddenly a door opens, my lover enters She is a stunning girl She tells me, did you hear, your song is on the radio

Everyone sings together Simply great, simply one of the greatest this year Here comes another big wave

*A day that went well

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Holding him hostage and torturing him for a decade surely freed Balestine

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the forensic info behind the bibas children's death was thankfully posted by someone else on the jumblr tag, because i couldn't write it down, but i want to address the intel question, aka "israel knew their fate but pretended otherwise for evil reasons!!!!!11"

in the weeks and months after 7/10, a lot of people were missing, and their exact fate - whether they perished in the massacres, or were kidnapped - was uncertain. some people were documented as they were kidnapped, but not everyone. on the scenes of murder in the kibbutzim, a lot of the houses were set on fire by the terrorists. the idea was simple - people, families, were hiding in their shelter rooms, and some (not all) have managed to block the doors and windows effectively. so the terrorists set them on fire. either the smoke and heat drives the people out - exposing them to either gunfire or kidnapping; or they stay inside and die anyway. those fires burned for a long while too. it's not like firefighters could immediately come to the scenes and put them out. so in many cases, the only things left from people were charred remains. in many cases, literal bone fragments or singular teeth. so the identification process took a long, long time. first the remains had to be found (that took a long time in cases too). then have dna extracted from them for identification. actual archaeologists and paleontologists were recruited for this mission because they had more experience dealing with such fragmentary remains than the regular medical teams.

and until those remains were accurately identified, the victims would not be officially and legally declared dead.

so for a long time, there were people whose fate was, officially, unknown. even if no footage of them from 7/10 ever emerged, even if hamas didn't declare them as hostages, even if their homes were burned to crisps, they would not be declared officially dead until they were 100% medically identified. the famous video of shani louk showed her dead body. but she was not officially declared dead until much later, when a fragment of her skull was found, and it was medically analyzed to be impossible for her to survive without that skull piece. this is just a single example - there are more. too many.

now to the bibas family.

the information published by the media is that israeli intelligence knew about their murder early after it happened (back in november 2023). the family was told that there's "a grave concern for their fate", which is (as the israeli public had since learned) is official lingo for "we really think we're dead but we can't prove it".

the "we can't prove it" part is exactly the point. there was an official committee decision that since there's a lack of material forensic evidence, the bibas family - shiri and the kids - can't be legally declared dead. it wasn't a special, unusual decision, made to torment their relatives or fool the public. it's literally how it's always been with victims of 7/10.

the bibas family have also publicly said, several times, that they refuse to assume shiri and the kids dead and give up on them before there's proof. yarden, when he was returned, also refused to do so, despite the famous video from captivity where he breaks down after his captors tell him shiri and the kids are dead.

even as hamas declared that the bodies to be returned this week are gonna be of shiri and the kids, the bibas family explicitly asked for people to not eulogize their loved ones until there's forensic confirmation of their identities. it was THEIR request and their decision to hang on to hope that they might be alive until the last possible moment.

one last thing i'll mention is that hamas have lied about the fate of the hostages before. they've claimed one elderly hostage (i think it was hannah katzir) died in captivity, but she was later released alive, if in severe condition. (she eventually passed away from the damages done to her body while in captivity.) they've filmed "the body" of daniella gilbo'a, claiming she died in an iaf bombing. she was eventually returned alive and well in the current deal, and told the truth - hamas made a whole production staging her death, using her. and most importantly, hamas refused, again and again, to provide evidence that shiri and the kids are dead, despite repeatedly being asked to do so. so yes, israeli intelligence services "knew" they were dead via their own means. but officially, publicly, it was impossible to declare them as such. and hamas' own vagueness and history of lies about the hostages' fates made it so the israeli public - and specifically the bibas family relatives - could not know for sure that they're gone, during all this time.

so people who choose to believe there's some grand evil conspiracy can do so if they like. for us israelis, it's another piece that fits the puzzle of horrific tragedy that started in 7/10.

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Avera Mengitsu is finally home after being held hostage by Hamas for 10 years. I needed to share some light during these incredibly dark times. Welcome home, Avera.

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I just want to make it clear that Hamas shot and mutilated and burnt alive 38 children on October 7th including seven children under the age of six. They also kidnapped 42 more. Hamas shot and killed one of the child hostages, a 12 year old autistic girl, and her grandma, a few hours after kidnapping them, presumably because they decided that keeping them as hostages would be too much of a hassle because of the girl's disability. They burnt an entire family, including a two year old toddler and twin five year old girls, alive. They shot a different nine month year old baby than the one who is being mourned today in the head. Another 12 year old girl was burnt alive that day along with 13 other civilians who were kidnapped, and her body was so mutilated it took a month to identify her remains. What happened to the Bibas children is not an anomaly. This is the organization that people around the world have chosen to celebrate and the organization that student groups at elite universities globally are choosing to very bluntly support and champion as #resistance against imperialism or colonization or whatever the justification for child murder is today. They are antisemitic terrorists and absolutely nobody has the right to act like what they have done is a shock. They announce over and over that this, Jewish civilian death, is their goal, and they repeatedly attain it because the entire world enables them and celebrates it when they kill Jewish kids.

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It's so depressingly funny to see people who intermittently post about how all Israelis should be shot and how murdering 12 year old autistic girls is #resistance also post shit like LOVE IS THE POINT OF IT ALL and HUMANS ARE INHERENTLY GOOD!!!! Like. Hm. Maybe. Not you though.

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הי״ד 💔

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The Bibas family has also released a statement.

may her memory and her precious boys’ memories be a blessing.

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Argentina remembers Ariel and Kfir 🧡🧡🧡