Hamas released three more hostages on Saturday in exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire deal reached with Israel.
Or Levy, 34; Eli Sharabi, 52; Ohad Ben Ami, 56, were released by Hamas after they were abducted during the terror group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel that prompted the war in Gaza.
The trio were released from Deir al-Balah in the central part of the Gaza Strip. The hostages arrived at the hand-over point in a Hamas vehicle.
Red Cross vehicles also arrived at the location.
The hostages, as with others before them, were forcibly paraded onto a stage and made to take part in a ceremony with their captors. Israeli leaders noted that the three men looked thin and exhausted.
“This is what a crime against humanity looks like! The whole world must look directly at Ohad, Or, and Eli—returning after 491 days of hell, starved, emaciated and pained—being exploited in a cynical and cruel spectacle by vile murderers,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog wrote in a post on X.
This is what a crime against humanity looks like!
The whole world must look directly at Ohad, Or, and Eli—returning after 491 days