하마스, 30일 이스라엘 3명 · 태국 5명 인질 석방 Israel says three Israeli and five Thai host

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Israel says three Israeli and five Thai hostages to be released in Gaza Thursday

하마스, 30일 이스라엘 3명 · 태국 5명 인질 석방

By Lauren Izso and Lianne Kolirin, CNN

Updated 2:24 PM EST, Wed January 29, 2025

https://youtu.be/aWA6Qtn02GU?si=_wyv85I-aHhJJyiC

The three Israeli hostages due to be released in Gaza: Arbel Yehoud (left), Agam Berger (center) and Gadi Moses. Hostages and Missing Families Forum

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The three Israeli hostages due to be released in Gaza on Thursday have been named by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), which also confirmed that five Thai nationals will be freed.

“The list of names received from Hamas today by the mediators Qatar and Egypt includes: Arbel Yehoud (29 years old), Agam Berger (19) and Gadi Moses (80),” the PMO said.

The names of the five Thai citizens to be freed have not been made public.

Israeli authorities are also expected to release 110 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday. Of those, 32 were sentenced to life imprisonment, and another 30 are children, according to Hamas.

A total of 33 Israeli hostages taken captive by Hamas and other armed groups in the October 7 attacks were set to be freed in phase one of the ceasefire and hostages release deal between Israel and Hamas. Two rounds of releases have already taken place. Meanwhile, Israel will release a total of almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in the first phase.

Eight of the remaining Israeli hostages set to be released are dead, Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer said on Monday.

All three Israeli hostages named for release on Thursday are believed to be alive, according to the Hostage and Missing Families Forum.

Yehoud was kidnapped from her home in the Nir Oz kibbutz, along with her partner Ariel Cunio, the forum said on Wednesday.

Moses, a grandfather and keen agronomist, also was taken from Nir Oz.

The kibbutz was among the hardest-hit of the communities targeted by Hamas in the attacks of October 7, 2023, with more than a quarter of its population of 400 being either killed or kidnapped.

Osnat Peri, the chairwoman of Kibbutz Nir Oz, described the news of the releases as “an exciting moment for us, and another step on the long road to bringing all our loved ones home.”

However, she also noted that of the 76 people kidnapped from the community, 29 remained in Gaza, and said that the “struggle will continue” until all were returned.

“Many others were murdered, homes were burned, and the entire community was uprooted,” she said, adding, “The road to recovery and the return of everyone home is still long, but we are not giving up.”

Moses’ family said Wednesday they had “received with great excitement the wonderful news of our beloved Gadi’s return to us tomorrow,” thanking “the people of Israel for their embrace and support.”

The third Israeli hostage to be returned Thursday, Berger, was a soldier abducted from a military base beside the Nahal Oz kibbutz.

The hostages forum said it too would “not give up or stop at any stage until all hostages return home – down to the very last one – the living for rehabilitation and the deceased for proper burial.”

Hostage thanks Israeli soldier for ‘saving her life’

The news of Thursday’s releases comes as a former hostage thanked a female soldier freed last week for saving her life.

Amit Soussana, who was released during an earlier, short-lived ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in November 2023, spoke in an emotional interview with Israeli TV about her experiences in captivity – and the bravery of her fellow captive Liri Albag, who was freed on Saturday.

Soussana credited Albag, 19, with talking one of her captors out of killing her.

The 40-year-old lawyer spent the first three weeks of her captivity in solitary confinement, with only her captor – who allegedly sexually assaulted her – for company. But after Israel launched its ground offensive in late October, she was moved to another location within the Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday, she told journalist Ben Shani, in an episode of “Uvda” on Israel’s Channel Keshet 12, that there were four other hostages at the second site – including Albag.

The group immediately bonded with Soussana and told her about their captors, singling out one who she labelled a “psychopath.” On one occasion, she said, he hit her in the neck with his gun, and threatened to “kill” her.

He and others then bound her arms and legs to two sticks and strung her up between two sofas, said Soussana. “I was tied to one stick by my hands and one by my feet and hung upside down and with duct tape on my face,” she added, while one of the men beat her.

She said she quickly learnt that they thought she was an IDF officer and were trying to obtain information from her.

Soussana alleged the other hostages were brought in to convince her to confess. Then, back in the room, she was threatened at gunpoint.

After her captor left, Albag told her she didn’t think that they would follow through, but asked nonetheless if Soussana had a message for her family. She said she loved them.

Soussana said the “psychopath” liked Albag, so she asked her to explain that she was a civilian. Describing her as “a force,” Soussana said that she was “something special” who “had power against him.”

But after two weeks together, the women were separated and Soussanna was transferred again – this time to Hamas’ network of underground tunnels.

Her stay there was short lived compared with some of the remaining hostages, who have been held for more than 15 months.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

CNN’s Kareem Khadder and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed reporting.

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하마스, 30일 이스라엘 3명 · 태국 5명 인질 석방

정다은 기자 작성 2025.01.30 05:22

▲ 하마스가 30일 석방하는 이스라엘 인질 3명

팔레스타인 무장정파 하마스가 30일(현지시간) 3차 인질 석방에서 이스라엘 인질 3명과 태국 인질 5명 등 8명을 풀어준다고 이스라엘 일간지 타임스오브이스라엘 등이 29일 보도했습니다.

이스라엘 정부 관계자는 하마스가 중재국을 통해 석방되는 이스라엘 인질의 이름을 통보했다며 민간인 여성 아르벨 예후드(29)와 여군 아감 베르거(19), 민간인 남성 가디 모셰 모제스(80)라고 소개했습니다.

함께 석방되는 태국인 인질의 이름은 확인되지 않았습니다. 가자지구에는 네팔인 1명, 탄자니아인 1명과 함께 8명의 태국인 인질이 아직 남아 있는데 이 중 태국인 2명과 탄자니아인은 숨진 것으로 알려졌다고 타임스오브이스라엘은 덧붙였습니다.

지난 19일 발효한 이스라엘과 하마스의 휴전 합의에 따르면 하마스는 6주(42일)간의 휴전 1단계에서 인질 총 33명을 풀어주고 이스라엘은 팔레스타인 수감자 1천904명을 석방하기로 했습니다.

이미 하마스는 19일과 25일, 2차례에 걸쳐 생존 인질 7명의 신병을 이스라엘에 인계했고 이스라엘은 팔레스타인 수감자 290명을 풀어줬습니다.

하마스는 2023년 10월 7일 이스라엘을 기습 공격해 1천200명을 살해한 뒤 251명을 가자지구로 끌고 갔습니다.

이스라엘군은 휴전 직전까지 가자지구에 인질 94명이 남아있고 이 가운데 34명은 사망한 것으로 파악했습니다. (사진=타임스오브이스라엘 홈페이지 캡처, 연합뉴스)

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