The Israeli military has revealed that Hamas has tonight handed over twelve Israeli and four Thai hostages, who are all on their way back to Israel, on the sixth day of the precarious and temporary ceasefire truce.
Daniel Hagari, an IDF spokesperson, said in a post to X this evening: ‘According to the information provided by the Red Cross, 10 Israeli abductees and abductees and four abductees with Thai citizenship are on their way to Israel.’
The names of the 10 Israeli hostages released within the ceasefire agreement are as follows: Liat Atzili, 49, Yarden Roman Gat, 36, Raz Ben Ami, 57, Raaya Rotem, 54, Liam Or, 18, Ofir Engel, 17, Amit Shani, 16, Gali Tarshanksy, 13, Moran Stela Yanai, 40, and Itai Regev, 18.
Several of the hostages have dual nationality, with a minor hailing from the Netherlands, three adults from Germany and an adult from the US.
Six of the hostages are said to hail from Kibbutz Be’eri, the site of one of the deadliest settlement massacres on October 7,…