Ruth Margalit on the anguish of the families of Israeli and international hostages taken by the militant group Hamas and held in Gaza in the wake of the October 7th attacks.
On the night of October 6th, Or slept over at his in-laws’ home, in the central town of Rishon LeZiyyon, with his wife and two-year-old son. At daybreak, Or, who is thirty-three, and his wife, Eynav, thirty-two, left their son sleeping in bed while they drove south to attend an outdoor music festival , Nova—music was a shared passion of theirs. They arrived at the party shortly after 6 A.M. Some twenty minutes later, Hamas militants breached the fence from Gaza and stormed the site.
citizens, was negotiated by Qatar via U.S. mediation. The Qatar channel goes through the Hamas political wing, many of whose leaders are based in Doha. The subsequent release of two elderly Israeli women was the result of Egyptian efforts, through negotiations with the Hamas military wing in Gaza, particularly Yahya Sinwar, who has emerged as Hamas’s most powerful leader. The return of the fifth hostage, a female I.D.F. soldier, was the result of a successful Israeli rescue mission.
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