31 January 2025

Ravi Berg

BBC News, London

Reuters posters show Israeli hostages (from left to right) Yarden, Sherry and Kafir PipasReuters

Yarden Bibas (left) is one of the three hostages that Hamas says he will liberate after that

The Palestinian Armed Group Hamas released the names of three hostages that it will be liberated on Saturday under the ceasefire with Israel.

They are the Israelis Aurir Calderon, 53, Yarden Pepas, 34, and the Israeli Americans Keith Siegel, 65 years old.

Mr. Bibas is the father of KFIR, the youngest hostage was 10 months old when Hamas kidnapped him. His wife, Sherry and their other son, Ariel, were also arrested.

The Israeli Prime Minister's office said that Israel had received the hostage list.

Israel will issue another group of Palestinian prisoners in return.

This will lead to the fourth place of this exchange of hostages for prisoners since the start of the shooting on January 19.

About 251 hostages were taken by Hamas when Israel attacked October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people.

The attack sparked a war that destroyed Gaza. The Israeli military attack was killed for 15 months, 4,7,460 Palestinians in the region, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Offer Kalderon and Yarden BIBAS were taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, while KFARGEL was taken from KFAR AZA.

The wife of Mr. Bebas Chery, and their two children, Ariel, now five, and KFIR, and now two, they were also transferred. Their fate is unknown.

Their launch will bring the number of hostages edited under the ceasefire deal so far to 18.

Four hundred Palestinian prisoners – starting with those who spend long provisions for bombings and other attacks of teenagers who were held without charge – have been released.

Most of them returned to the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, while many of the most dangerous violators were deported.

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