[IsraelTimes] A recently returned captive reportedly spent months with 27-year-old, said to be in ‘relatively stable state’; Kalfon’s is 11th hostage family to announce sign of life since weekend
The family of hostage Segev Kalfon said Thursday that it had received a fresh sign of life from him, the latest information to be known about a young male captive since Hamas
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released three Israelis as part of the Gazoo
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ceasefire deal on Saturday, Hebrew media reported.
According to the Kan public broadcaster, Kalfon’s family received the information from one of the hostages who returned over the weekend and had spent "long months" with Kalfon in captivity.
"He didn’t elaborate on [Kalfon’s] condition, but said he was okay," the family was quoted as saying.
The Maariv newspaper said they described Kalfon as being in "relatively stable condition."
Kalfon, 27, from Dimona, was kidnapped from the Reim-area Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led snuffies stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
Kalfon is slated for release only in the next, second of the hostage deal. The second phase, which Israel has not committed to, would see Hamas release remaining living hostages — who, when the first phase is completed, would comprise men aged less than 50 who are not considered "humanitarian cases" for health reasons.
Kalfon’s is the latest hostage family to announce having received information about their loved one since the return of Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy on Saturday.
The three returning hostages’ emaciated state highlighted the male captives’ harsh conditions. Ben Ami, Sharabi and Levy were said to have been bound, gagged, beaten, starved and beaten with a searing hot object.
In the days since their release, 12 hostage families have reportedly received signs of life for their loved ones.
Kalfon’s is the eleventh family to go public with the sign of life it received, following the families of hostages Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel, Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Nimrod Cohen, Eitan Mor, Omri Miran, Eliya Cohen and twins Gali and Ziv Berman.
Of those hostages, 27-year-old Eliya Cohen is the only one slated for release in the current phase.
Cohen was reportedly being held in an underground tunnel, chained, starved and suffering from a bullet wound to his leg sustained during the Hamas onslaught. Several other young male hostages were said to be suffering similar conditions.
Hamas has so far released 16 Israeli and five Thai hostages as part of the first phase of the hostage deal.
Hamas forced surveillance troops to watch torture videos of male hostages, says mother
[IsraelTimes] The female surveillance soldiers recently freed from Gaza were forced by Hamas to watch videos of male hostages being tortured, according to one of their mothers.
Speaking with Channel 12 news alongside three other mothers of the surveillance troops, Shira Albag quotes her daughter Liri as saying “I got out of the hell that we went through there, but the men, the soldiers, are going through worse than us.'”
“The terrorists also made a point to show them videos and share with them all sorts of things that they [the male hostages] were going through there, that they starved… all sorts of things that are really tough,” Shira Albag says. “Even today when they’re here, we don’t know everything exactly that they went through.”
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