All Living Hostages Are Back in Israel, by Virginia Allen

After 738 days in Hamas captivity, the final 20 living hostages crossed the border from Gaza back into Israel. Images of fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, and sisters embracing their loved ones after two years of separation flooded social media.

Bar Kupershtein, 23, cried as he embraced his mother. He was working at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023 when Hamas launched its terrorist attack on Israel killing 1,200 and taking another 251, including Kupershtein, hostage.

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Omri Miran, 48 and the oldest living hostage to return to Israel on Monday, was taken hostage on Oct. 7 in front of his wife and two young daughters. That day, Lishay Miran told her husband she loved him as Hamas terrorist took him away. After over two years, the family was finally reunited. …