Posted on 02/07/25
| News Source: Arutz-7
After 491 days in captivity, Hamas will free hostages Or Levy, Eli Sharabi and Ohad Ben Ami from captivity on Saturday, it was cleared for publication on Friday evening.
Levy, 34, was kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023. His wife who was with him was murdered. Their three-year-old son is waiting for his father to return home.
Sharabi, 52, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023. His wife and two daughters were murdered during the Hamas massacre. Sharabi’s brother, Yossi, was also kidnapped by Hamas and it was later announced that he was murdered while in captivity. Hamas continues to hold Yossi’s body.
Ben Ami, 56, was taken from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, together with his wife, Raz, who was freed in the previous hostage release deal in November of 2023.
The Ministry of Health updated that the hostages will be taken, after an initial medical assessment, to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer. At the same time, Barzilai and Soroka hospitals will prepare to provide medical attention for immediate medical response, if required.
"The medical teams and professional staff in the hospitals are prepared to receive them and do everything required to provide medical, psychological, and any other necessary care," said the Ministry of Health.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said it “welcomes the joyful news regarding the expected release of Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi, and Or Levy after 491 days in Hamas captivity.”
“We have the sacred duty and moral right to bring all our brothers and sisters home. We will not give up and will not stop at any stage until all the hostages return home under the current agreement, until the last hostage - the living for rehabilitation and the fallen for a proper burial in their homeland,” it added.