The Arab Bedouin father and son have been seized by Palestinian militants from Kibbutz Holit close to the Gaza border throughout the Hamas assault of Oct 7, 2023.
Kidnapped with them have been Hamza’s sister and brother, who have been launched throughout a week-long truce in November 2023.
Throughout their assault, militants took 251 individuals hostage. Of these, 95 stay in Gaza, together with 34 the Israeli navy says are useless.
The 2023 assault resulted within the deaths of 1,208 individuals on the Israeli facet, principally civilians, in response to Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed 45,936 individuals in Gaza, the vast majority of them civilians, in response to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry which the United Nations considers dependable.
