Dozens of Hostages Are Still in Gaza: What We Know

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Dozens of Hostages Are Still in Gaza: What We Know

Protests and labor strikes erupted across ******* after the military said on Sunday that it had recovered the bodies of six hostages from Gaza.

Dozens of other hostages abducted in the Oct. 7 ******-led ******* on ******* remain in captivity, according to the ******** authorities. Here’s a look at what we know about them.

How many hostages are still in Gaza?

More than 60 living hostages, and the bodies of about 35 others taken captive on Oct. 7 but believed to be *****, are still in Gaza, according to the ******** authorities.

In all, about 250 people were abducted on Oct. 7, according to ******** officials, who include in that number 37 people who were murdered in the initial ******* and whose bodies were taken back to Gaza. Those taken were mainly civilians but also included military and security personnel. They were men, women and children, ******** citizens as well as people who were citizens of the ******* States, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Mexico, Thailand and other countries.

How many hostages are Americans?

In all, 12 people with U.S. citizenship were abducted to Gaza on Oct. 7, according to the ******** government. Two of them, Judith Raanan and her daughter, Natalie Raanan, were freed on Oct. 20 after pressure on ****** by the ******* States and Qatar. Two others were released during a cease-***** in November.

One of the hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual ******** ********* citizen, was among the six who were found ***** in Gaza over the weekend. He had been taken from a music festival in southern ******* on Oct. 7.

The ********* ******* Committee,

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

for ******* people around the world, on Saturday listed

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

who were still being held alive in Gaza. They are ***** Alexander, 20; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35; Omer Neutra, 22; and Keith Siegel, 64. Three others are presumed *****: Itay Chen, 19; Gadi Haggai, 73; and ***** Weinstein Haggai, 70.

How many hostages have been freed?

Since Oct. 7, 117 people have been released, according to the ******** authorities. More than 100 were freed during a one-week cease-***** at the end of November in exchange for 240 Palestinians held in ******** detention.

In addition, eight people have been freed during ******** military operations. Last week, a Bedouin ***** citizen of ******* was rescued after ******** commandos found him alone in a tunnel in southern Gaza.

In the most high-profile ******** rescue, in June, soldiers and special operations police rescued four hostages from buildings in the town of Nuseirat, in central Gaza. Scores of Palestinians, including women and children, were ******* during that operation, according to the health ministry in Gaza.

In December, ******** forces mistakenly ******* three hostages who had escaped from their captors and were attempting to approach them. The army said the ********* violated its rules of engagement.

What are the conditions like for those still in captivity?

Hostages who have returned from captivity in Gaza have shed some light on where they were held and what the conditions were like. Some were held in hospitals, others in apartments, a mosque and even a destroyed supermarket. ****** has also been known to hold hostages underground in a network of tunnels. The ******** military said on Sunday that the bodies of the six slain hostages were found in a tunnel.

Many hostages who have left Gaza have described being moved repeatedly during their captivity, under heavily armed guard. They reported being subjected to

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

Andrey Kozlov, 27, a Russian ********, provided a detailed account of his time in captivity after he was rescued by the ******** military in June. He described being held in six locations in the first two months and being moved to an apartment in mid-December. In some places, he and the hostages he was held with had only a pail for a *******, and food was scarce.

After the rescue of Mr. Kozlov and three other captives, Dr. Itai Pessach, the head of a medical team for returning hostages, said they were malnourished. “They were all abused, punished and tortured physically and psychologically in many ways,” he said.

Gabby Sobelman contributed reporting.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#Dozens #Hostages #Gaza

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up