{"id":21170,"date":"2025-01-16T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hamas-hostages-stories-of-the-people-taken-from-israel\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:57:10","slug":"hamas-hostages-stories-of-the-people-taken-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hamas-hostages-stories-of-the-people-taken-from-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas hostages: Stories of the people taken from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Guy Gilboa-Dalal<\/b>, 23, attended the festival with his brother. In June, an unnamed released hostage was reported as saying they had been held in a room with Guy after their capture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Eitan Mor<\/b>, 24, was working as a security guard at the festival. In June, his father told Israeli radio that &#8220;the last sign of life&#8221; his family had had of Eitan was four months previously, but he did not give any details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Alon Ohel<\/b>, 23, is a Serbian citizen who was attending the festival. Hamas footage showed him being taken away as a hostage, but his mother said in August that she had not seen or heard of him since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Maxim Kharkin<\/b>, 36, was invited to the festival at the last moment. He texted his mother twice after the attack, but has not been seen or heard of since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Segev Kalfon<\/b>, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Romi Gonen<\/b>, 24, was ambushed as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Her mother, Merav Leshem Gonan, addressed the UN Human Rights Council in June, when she appealed for international help to release the hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bar Kuperstein<\/b>, 23, was working at the festival when the attack took place. His family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Eliya Cohen<\/b>, 27, and his girlfriend initially hid from the attackers in a shelter, but he was discovered, and driven away. In June, Hamas footage was released showing the moment Cohen and others were taken prisoner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Elkana Bohbot<\/b>, 35, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rom Braslavski<\/b>, 20, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Omer Wenkert<\/b>, 23<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">,<\/b> a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact. His family say they saw Hamas video footage of Omer, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-67053011\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Gilboa-Dalal, 23, attended the festival with his brother. In June, an unnamed released hostage was reported as saying they had been held in a room with Guy after their capture. Eitan Mor, 24, was working as a security guard at the festival. In June, his father told Israeli radio that &#8220;the last sign of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21172,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions\/21172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}