Yehi HaM'virach b'Sh'vi Na Chai! Long live the released hostagess! Chai!

"An Israeli mother of two children was among the hostages released by Hamas in the first part of the exchange deal signed on Friday and set to be completed in mid-December.<br><br>Yeshiva student Hisham al-Sayed, 24, who has been imprisoned for a year and a half, was also released, as well as three residents of the Bedouin towns of Hura and Kuseife who were kidnapped at the border.<br><br>The freed Israelis were whisked away in a helicopter and taken to a secret Israeli military base where they were reunited with their families.<br><br>One of them was a woman whose kidnapping by Hamas was kept under a gag order by Israeli authorities. She was abducted at the Gaza border in early 2022, months before the October 7 attack.<br><br>She was brought to hospital by the International Red Cross and was met by her husband who said he was so overwhelmed by emotion that he “couldn’t speak.”<br><br>All the released Israelis were said to be in reasonable health, except for one who had suffered light injuries. Two of them had lost weight.<br><br>The mother was being treated for injuries caused by shrapnel. A surgeon said that she had lost “a lot of blood” and had suffered injuries to her organs, requiring several operations. Reports said that she was on the road to recovery.<br><br>Hisham and the Bedouin hostages were all in good health.<br><br>Details of the Israeli deaths confirmed by Hamas on Friday were not made public."