{"id":243982,"date":"2025-02-21T18:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/hamas-names-six-israeli-hostages-to-be-released-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:06:05","slug":"hamas-names-six-israeli-hostages-to-be-released-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/hamas-names-six-israeli-hostages-to-be-released-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas names six Israeli hostages to be released on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hamas has named six Israeli hostages who are set to be released on Saturday while Israel is expected to release more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of a ceasefire agreement between the parties.<\/p>\n

The hostages due for release are Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengisto.<\/p>\n

According to the Hamas prisoners’ media office, Israel will be releasing 602 Palestinian prisoners and detainees on Saturday, adding to the hundreds already released since the ceasefire took effect last month.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s hostage release will be the final one in this phase of the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

Mr Mengisto and Mr al-Sayed are civilians who entered Gaza a decade ago and have been held there since.<\/p>\n

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\n (Clockwise) Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Tal Shoham, Avera Mengisto, Hisham al-Sayed and Omer Wenkert.
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\n Tal Shoham, 39, taken from Be’eri. Pic: Bring Them Home Now
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Israelis who survived being held prisoner in Gaza, where a powerful bombing campaign has left much of it destroyed, have been released in small groups since the first six-week phase began last month.<\/p>\n

The start of negotiations for a second phase of the ceasefire is expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n

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\n Hisham Al-Sayed, 36, taken from South Gaza. Pic: Bring Them Home Now
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Hamas took 251 hostages in its attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023 in which it killed 1,200 people.<\/p>\n

The latest list of hostages set for release comes amid heightened tensions between the parties after Israel claimed the body of hostage <\/a><\/strong>Shiri Bibas wasn’t actually hers and it had instead received the remains of an “anonymous body without identification”.<\/p>\n

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Hamas responded that Ms Bibas’s remains appear to have been mixed with other human remains during what it claims was an “Israeli airstrike”.<\/p>\n

Her body was meant to be handed over on Thursday alongside the bodies of her two children, who the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed they received.<\/p>\n

The body of journalist and peace activist Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was abducted, was also returned.<\/p>\n

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The Bibas family has become a powerful symbol of the 251 Israelis kidnapped on 7 October 2023 – not least because Kfir was the youngest taken.<\/p>\n

The children’s father, Yarden Bibas, was released on 1 February as part of the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.<\/p>\n

Since the start of the war in October 2023, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 48,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks. Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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