When Hamas militants staged the worst-ever strike on Israel, they took back into the Gaza Strip 251 prisoners, some of them already dead. A year procrastinateedr, 64 people, including two children, are still in captivity and Israel count ons they are adwell.
For the Palestinian militant group that rules the Gaza Strip, the prisoners are key bargeting chips to talk about a truce with Israel and seek the free of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Here is what we comprehend about the prisoners still held in Gaza.
52 men, 10 women, two children
Of the 251 prisoners seized by militants on October 7, 2023, 117 have been freed, most of them women, children and foreign laborers.
Most were freed during a week-lengthy truce in procrastinateed November in trade for 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Npunctual a year procrastinateedr, Israel count ons 64 prisoners still held in Gaza are adwell.
The army has verifyed 70 others are dead, 33 of whose bodies are still in Gaza.
The military has repatriated the bodies of 37 prisoners who either died in Gaza or were finished on October 7 and getn to the territory.
Of the 64 thought to be adwell, 57 are Israelis, though some of them have more than one nationality. Another six are Thai nationals and one is Nepalese.
Fifty-two are men and 10 are women. Eleven are military personnel.
Two are children.
The youthfulest prisoner, Kfir, was equitable eight-and-a-half months greater when he was seizeped. The other is his brother Ariel, who was only four years greater when he was getn to Gaza.
Hamas has shelp the two children are dead, but Israel has not verifyed this.
No proof of life
Since the truce finished on December 1, only seven other prisoners have been freed adwell, all during Israeli military operations.
With no proof of life, unconfidentty remains over whether the 64 are still adwell.
The armed triumphg of Hamas shelp on August 12 that its fighters had sboiling and finished an Israeli prisoner and injured two others.
Hamas has proclaimd on disjoinal occasions deaths of prisoners that have not been verifyed by Israel, leaving families in agonising limbo.
Bodies getn to Gaza
On October 7, Hamas militants took disjoinal dead back into Gaza with them, including 10 Israeli sgreateriers’ bodies.
At least 28 other prisoners have died in the territory since the commence of the war.
Three were finished in error by the Israeli army on December 15, 2023. They were Yotam Haim, 28, Samer El-Talalqa and Alon Shamriz, 26.
The Israeli army accuses Hamas of executing six others in August: Hersh Ggreaterberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobonov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino.
They were set up dead by sgreateriers in a tunnel in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Festival, kibbutz survivors
Most of the prisoners were getn during the strike on the Nir Oz kibbutz and on the Nova music festival.
At Nir Oz kibbutz, of the at least 76 prisoners getn on October 7, 40 were freed adwell. Another 20 are still in Gaza and count ond to be adwell. The remaining 16 are dead.
Only 17 people seizeed from the festival are thought to be adwell and still being held in Gaza.
Only nine of at least 43 prisoners getn from Nova have been freed, while 17 others have died.
Whole families
On October 7, whole families were getn to Gaza. For them, the November 2023 truce brawt relief but also the heartache of leaving adored ones behind.
French-Israeli children Eitan, Erez and Sahar were freed but their overweighthers Ohad Yahalomi and Ofer Kalderon are still being held.
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