Twenty living Israeli hostages, including three Argentines, were released on Monday after more than two years in captivity in Gaza, as part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
The three Israeli-Argentines are David Cunio and Ariel Cunio, 35 and 28 respectively, and Eitan Horn, 39.
The body of Lior Rudaeff, the fourth Argentine who remained in captivity in Gaza and whose death was confirmed in 2024, is still yet to be recovered.
Militants kidnapped the hostages during Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the deadliest in the country's history.
On Monday, the freed hostages and their family and friends were seen in video footage running into one another’s arms, beaming and crying with joy at the end of the captives’ ordeal.
Sylvia Cunio, mother of Ariel and David, described the anguish of waiting for her sons' re
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