Sagui Dekel-Chen, Sasha Trupanov and Yair Horn all freed in sixth hostage-prisoner exchange of Gaza ceasefire. The three men had been seized from their homes in Nir Oz, a kibbutz community near the Gaza border, during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack that sparked the war. In return, Israel released 369 Palestinian prisoners, most of them residents of the Gaza Strip detained during the war but some of them serving life sentences for attacks against Israelis. The hostages were released in during a first, week-long truce in November 2023, but were released again during the second truce in October 2023. The families of the hostages say they will keep campaigning \”until the last hostage returns home\” and that they will be reunited with their loved ones in the \”coming hours\” for the first time since he was abducted by Hamas in 2023 and brought back to Israel. The hostage exchange took place during the sixth ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on Saturday.
