After practically seven weeks in captivity, 13 Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and different teams through the Oct. 7 assaults on Israel have been launched on Friday as a part of a deal that paused the preventing within the Gaza Strip.

The 13 — all girls and youngsters — have been returned to Israel. 5 different hostages had been launched or rescued earlier within the preventing.

Twelve of these newly launched have been among the many roughly 75 individuals who had been kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Ozon Oct. 7. One of many 13 was amongst these taken from Kibbutz Nirim.

As well as, 10 Thais and one Filipino have been freed, however particulars about their identities haven’t been launched.

Right here’s what we all know concerning the Israelis launched on Friday.

Keren Munder, 54; Ohad Munder Zichri, 9; Ruth Munder, 78

Keren Munder and her son, Ohad Munder Zichri, residents of Kfar Saba in central Israel, have been visiting her dad and mom, Ruth and Abraham Munder, in Kibbutz Nir Oz, close to the Gaza border, when the Oct. 7 assault occurred.

Ruth and Abraham’s son, Roee, 50, was killed through the assault. Ohad had his ninth birthday in captivity on Oct. 23. Abraham, 78, is believed to nonetheless be held in Gaza.

Ruth is a retired hairdresser and seamstress, based on Kibbutz Nir Oz. Keren teaches kids with particular wants.

Danielle Aloni and her daughter Amelia have been taken hostage whereas visiting Ms. Aloni’s sister, Sharon Cunio, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz.

They have been kidnapped together with Sharon, her husband, David Cunio, and their twins, Emma and Yuli, 3.

The final their household heard from them was a message on WhatsApp that learn: “Assist, we’re dying.”

Hamas later distributed a video of Ms. Aloni in captivity.

Adina Moshe, 72

Ms. Moshe was final seen on Oct. 7 between two gunmen on a bike being pushed into Gaza. She was kidnapped from her secure room in Kibbutz Nir Ozafter her husband, Sa’id Moshe, was killed through the Hamas assault.

Naama Ben-Dvora, Ms. Moshe’s niece, informed an Israeli broadcaster that she felt “a way of very, very nice reduction, and happiness and hope, after all, that all of them will come residence.”

Yaffa Adar, 85

Ms. Adar helped discovered Kibbutz Nir Ozwithin the Fifties, based on her household. She was kidnapped along with her grandson Tamir Adar, 38, who stays in captivity.

{A photograph} of Ms. Adar’s abduction grew to become one of many defining pictures of the assault. She was photographed wrapped in a pink blanket as she sat in a golf cart that was pushed by militants into Gaza.

Hanna Katzir, 76

Ms. Katzir helped oversee baby care in Kibbutz Nir Ozfor a few years, based on a niece, Dalit Katzenellenbogen, who lives in Tel Aviv. A grandmother of six who makes use of a walker, she was kidnapped to Gaza along with her son, Elad Katzir, 47. Her husband, Rami, was killed.

Islamic Jihad, an armed Palestinian group that helped lead the assault, had just lately claimed that Ms. Katzir had died in captivity and stated it will present proof, which by no means materialized.

Hanna Peri, 79

Ms. Peri, certainly one of 5 individuals who have been captured on Oct. 7 from Kibbutz Nirim, immigrated to Israel from South Africa within the Sixties and has lived at Nirim ever since. Ms. Peri labored on the group’s grocery retailer. One in all her three kids was killed within the assault on Oct. 7 and one other was kidnapped to Gaza and is believed to nonetheless be a captive there.

Ms. Peri has diabetes and extreme imaginative and prescient loss in a single eye, and she or he loves gardening and taking tai chi lessons, based on the Hostages Household Discussion board, a nongovernmental group advocating for the discharge of the hostages and supporting their households.

Margalit Moses, 77

A nature lover and a most cancers survivor, Ms. Moses, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, additionally has diabetes and different power well being issues, based on the Hostages Household Discussion board.

Regardless of her poor well being, the discussion board stated, she likes to hike. A twin German citizen, she traveled to Norway in the summertime and was planning to go to Mozambique this winter.

Doron Katz Asher, 34; Raz Asher, 4; Aviv Asher, 2

Ms. Katz Asher was kidnapped along with her two younger daughters, Raz and Aviv Asher, whereas they have been staying at her mom’s residence in Kibbutz Nir Oz. The Katz Ashers maintain twin German citizenship.

Ms. Katz Asher’s husband, Yoni Asher, 37, final heard from her on Oct. 7, when she known as him to say that there have been terrorists inside her mom’s residence.

Later, he noticed his relations in a video posted on social media, which confirmed them being pushed by means of Gaza on the again of a pickup truck. Monitoring his spouse’s telephone remotely, Mr. Asher noticed that the gadget was taken to Khan Younis, a metropolis in southern Gaza.

“I’m decided to assist my household get well from the horrible trauma and loss we went by means of, for my daughters and my spouse’s future,” Mr. Asher stated in an announcement launched by means of the Hostages and Lacking Individuals Households Discussion board on Friday, including, “I can’t have fun till the final of the hostages returns residence.”