Nadene Goldfoot
- 1. Eliyah Cohen: Cohen, 27, was one of four Nova festival-goers to emerge alive from a shelter where 16 others died. He was reportedly wounded on Oct. 7. His mother said earlier this month that previously released hostages said Cohen had been chained and beaten.
- 2. Omer Shem Tov: Taken hostage from the Nova music festival, Shem Tov, 22, was seen alive by hostages who were released in November 2023.
- 3. Omer Wenkert: Abducted from the Nova music festival, Wenkert, 23, was seen alive in videos filmed by Hamas that day.
- 4. Tal Shoham: Taken hostage from Kibbutz Beeri along with six members of his family, Shoham, 39, remained in captivity after his wife, children, and other relatives were released in November 2023. Several other family members were murdered on Oct. 7th.
I. Avera Mengistu: One of four hostages not taken on Oct. 7, Mengistu, an Ethiopian-Israeli, entered Gaza by foot in 2014.
II.Hisham Al-Sayed: Al-Sayed, 36, wandered into Gaza by foot in 2015. Last seen with an oxygen face mask in a propaganda video released in 2022, he was released to the Red Cross without ceremony in Gaza City.
Israel delayed the planned release of 600 Palestinian prisoners early Sunday, threatening the fragile ceasefire with Hamas after a tumultuous and emotional week regarding the return of several living and dead hostages from Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office released a statement around 1 a.m. saying the delay was due to “ceremonies that demean our hostages’ dignity and the cynical use of our hostages for propaganda purposes” and referred to the prisoners as “terrorists.” What? That's why the 600 were prisoners; they had been the terrorists doing their terrorizing.
Ofer Prison (Hebrew: כלא עופר, Kele Ofer), formerly officially known as Incarceration Facility 385 (מתקן כליאה 385), is an Israeli incarceration facility in the Israeli-Judea Samaria. It is one of three prison facilities along with Megiddo and Ktzi'ot, the latter two located in Israel and not in Judea or Samaria.The prisoners had already been loaded onto buses at Israel’s Ofer prison for what was the largest single-day release called for under the six-week first phase of the ceasefire deal. Ofer Prison is run by the Israel Prison Service and like the other two facilities, used to be operated by the Israel Defense Forces' Military Police Corps. When under IDF control, it was capable of holding up to 800 prisoners, both tried and those under administrative detention.
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