Israel-Hamas War: Families Release Photos of Five Israeli Female Soldiers from Their First Days of Captivity in Gaza

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families Five Israeli female soldiers Palestinian prisoners kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 have released photos from their first days in captivity, urging… Israel The government reaches an agreement that guarantees the release of detainees in Gaza.

The women were monitors from the Israel Defense Forces stationed at an Israeli military base in Nahal Oz, which was overrun by Hamas armed groups during their attack on Israel last year.

The Hostages’ Families Committee said the families of the monitors – Agam Berger, Daniela Gilboa, Liri Albag, Naama Levy and Karina Ariev – decided to allow the publication of photos taken of them during the first days of their captivity by the armed group.

“The photos show them suffering from bruises and wounds as a result of the horrific kidnapping witnessed by the entire world,” the forum said.

In the photos, Levy appears to have severe bruising over his right eye. Another photo shows four women sitting on a bed in a bare room; two of them, Gilboa and Arief, are blindfolded.

“The parents’ brave decision to release these photos is intended to bring them closer to hugging their daughters,” they said.

A video has been released showing the arrest of the group. Pre-released In May by their families.

Hamas’s attack on Israel killed about 1,200 people and captured more than 250 others and held them in the Strip. Following the attack, Israel launched a war on Gaza that killed 1,200 people. More than 38 thousand PalestiniansAccording to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

“This meeting requires nothing more than an agreement, an agreement that would return all 120 hostages to their homes – the living for rehabilitation and the dead and slain for proper burial,” the forum said in a statement issued on Tuesday.

“We call on the Israeli government, and especially its leader, to look into the eyes of these girls, try to imagine what they and all the hostages have suffered over the past 284 days, and do everything in their power to bring them home.”

“My little daughter Karina, who is only 19 years old, is in Gaza,” Karina Ariev’s father, Albert Ariev, said at a press conference accompanying her release. “Today, you can see footage of Karina and her friends in their first days of captivity. It is very vivid footage – Karina sitting on a mattress on the floor, her face exhausted and desperate.”

“The swelling in her hands suggests that Karina was tied up for a long time. You can see one shot, but in the video, you can see facial wounds that may have been caused by shrapnel when the terrorists invaded the shelter,” he added.

“All we ask is for Karina to return. There are also dead people who need to be buried. People are demanding their return.”

Arief called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Please do not travel abroad before moving forward with this agreement.”

Netanyahu is under intense pressure to secure the release of more than 100 hostages believed to be still being held by Hamas. Earlier on Tuesday, Netanyahu met with the families of other observers killed at the base, near the northern Gaza Strip, which Hamas overran in an October attack that killed 16 soldiers.

The prime minister’s office said the meeting lasted three hours. He “listened with interest to the stories of the lives and heroism of each of the girls, felt the pain of the families, and listened to their requests and demands for an investigation into the events and to commemorate their daughters,” it said.

The Prime Minister answered their questions and said that matters would be studied in depth and lessons would be drawn at all levels, including in the intelligence, operational, military and diplomatic fields.