Hamas to the free Yarden Pepas, the Israeli father whose family took into account

The family of four was among more than 180 Kibutz residents Nir OzAgricultural society in southern Israel, who were killed or kidnapped in the October 7 attack. Since then, the family has become faces of a national shock that has sparked a fierce Israeli war in Gaza aimed at eliminating Hamas, a killing of more than 47,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, who do not distinguish between fighters and civilians.

More than 1750 people in Israel were killed in the war, about 1,200 of them on the day of the October 7 attack, according to Israeli officials. Toll includes more than 890 members of the Israeli military forces.

For more than a year of waiting, the hostages and their supporters carried orange balloons and orange shirts wearing in honor of missing children and their ginger hair. They held great events to celebrate two first birthdays of Kafir, who have never celebrated the celebration of another of the families.

All other children who were seized in the October 7 attack were released in a previous stop deal.

Israeli officials have pressured Hamas negotiators in recent days for more clarity around Mrs. Pepas and her children, according to the Israeli media. As a civilian with children, they were expected to be released in the initial stages of the ceasefire deal, before the soldiers or men, if they were alive.

Mr. Pepas was kidnapped separately from his family.

In the early morning hours before his arrest, he sent a text message to his sister, Ovry Pipas-Levy, to tell her about the incoming missile fire, according to an interview with her He can, Israeli public broadcaster. Later, he wrote that the gunmen entered the camp. He told her a gun, but gunmen have automatic rifles.

Then he described scenes from the clashes on Kibbutz and his fear that his young children will not be able to maintain calm.

“It looks like the end,” he wrote at 9:10 am.

A video of the October 7 attack on Nir Oz revealed pictures of the militants who dig the front door of the Bibas family.

At some point before her brother was arrested, Mrs. Pipas Levy was told, just as he wrote and her parents he loved them. At 9:45 am, he wrote: “They are in.”

Mrs. Pepas Levy told him that the first to know the kidnapping of her brother on October 7 when she saw a video of the gunmen kidnapped him a few days later.