Photos of the Hostages Released on Saturday

Again, we have some good news this weekend. Hopefully there will be more to celebrate later today.

Nov 26, 2023

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You can read here about the hostages released on Saturday.

Emily Hand was abducted from a friend's home in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023. She was initially thought to have been killed. (Courtesy) — Emily Hand, a nine-year-old Irish-Israeli, now free. The only photo I did not have in the hostage fliers. Image via Times of Israel, courtesy.

Having looked through the names and photos of the hostages released yesterday, I find this group a more bittersweet one than the last.

While women, teenagers, and children were released…

Families remain divided. Noam Or and Alma Or were released, but their father Dror in the middle there remains captured.

Of brother and sister Itay and Maya Regev, so far only Maya has been released. Likewise, with the Shoham family below, the children and mother were released, but the father was not.

An American child was also released, she was also not among the hostage posters:

Biden said the 4-year-old hostage, Abigail Edan, had witnessed her parents being killed by Hamas fighters during their Oct. 7 raid into Israel and had been held since then.
"What she endured is unthinkable," Biden said at a news conference in the U.S.

I am not sure yet who the four Thais were released on Saturday. When I find out then they too will be noted - there are many of them still among the posters…

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