The 20 living Israeli hostages who spent two years in Hamas captivity reunited with their families on Monday morning as the terror group released them under the Trump administration’s peace deal.
Hamas abducted the hostages, most of them civilians, during its Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. “Today, twenty families are spared the unbearable pain of not knowing if they will ever see their loved ones again,” White House envoy Steve Witkoff wrote in a statement, vowing to recover the bodies of 28 deceased hostages, including 2 Americans.
Pictures and videos of the reunions show tearful embraces and cheers.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Evyatar David were abducted from the Nova music festival. The two were “starved and kept in chains with bags over their heads,” the Times of Israel reported earlier this year.
This is the most glorious reunion. Guy Gilboa-Dalal in the loving arms of his beautiful family. His mother was literally heartbroken and had to have major surgery. How wonderful to see her joy. Her heart and all our hearts are healed. pic.twitter.com/7QJgXpswui
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) October 13, 2025
Evyatar David reuniting with his family after two years. pic.twitter.com/TN0Xw83KVH
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) October 13, 2025
Matan Zangauker, kidnapped from his home during the October 7 attack, suffers from muscular dystrophy that he developed in captivity and was “shackled and held in cages,” according to the Times. He reunited with his mother Einav, who told him, “Thank God the war is over. The war is over,” the BBC reported.
The emotional reunion of Einav and Matan Zangauker ❤️ pic.twitter.com/nCsZqbxgwq
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 13, 2025
Bar Kuperstein was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival during Hamas’s attack. His grandparents are Holocaust survivors.
Bar Kuperstein’s grandparents are Holocaust survivors.
Before Bar was abducted, his father was non-verbal and was paralyzed due to an accident. During Bar’s captivity, he father learned to speak and walk again.
This is Bar’s reunion with his family of survivors.❤️🩹 pic.twitter.com/OIWg7rb6UZ
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) October 13, 2025
Eitan Mor also worked as a security guard at the Nova music festival at the time of the attack. His parents credited his survival with his “incredible social skills” that helped him become “the spokesman” for the hostages to Hamas captors, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Eitan Mor and his parents hug for the first time in two years.
Every single sound you hear in this reunion is pure love and joy.💙 pic.twitter.com/juwJB2ugwO
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) October 13, 2025
Segev Kalfon was taken captive as he tried to escape by car from the Nova music festival. He struggles with an anxiety disorder and broke his leg before Hamas’s kidnapping, according to the Times.
Segev Kalfon reuniting with his family after two years. pic.twitter.com/sNb0kRRRCI
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) October 13, 2025
Alon Ohel suffered head trauma and shrapnel wounds as he was abducted from the Nova music festival. His family revealed earlier this year that he had lost vision in one eye and that his head wounds were stitched up by an untrained 19-year-old.
The family of hostage Alon Ohel erupts in joy upon hearing the news that he’s now with the IDF, coming home 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/b42ynmoM74
— Nazi Hunters (@HuntersOfNazis) October 13, 2025
Yosef-Chaim Ohana, who worked as a bartender in Tel Aviv, was taken captive as he tried to help injured attendees of the music festival escape, according to the Times.
Yosef-Chaim Ohana’s father reunites with his son and it is a hug for the ages 🥹 pic.twitter.com/2izIBicSFg
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 13, 2025
Matan Angrest, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, was taken from his tank at the Nahal Oz military base. Hamas captors subjected Angrest to electric torture, freed hostage Ron Krivoi said in April.
🇮🇱 | Emocionante. Así festeja la familia de Matan Angrest, uno de los rehenes liberados, al enterarse de que ya está a salvo en Israel.pic.twitter.com/cPTrvVldsv
— Agustín Antonetti (@agusantonetti) October 13, 2025
Nimrod Cohen, another IDF soldier abducted from his tank, was held in an animal cage for months and endured extreme interrogations by Hamas captors, according to the Post.
Nimrod Cohen seeing his family for the first time in two years. pic.twitter.com/8mHHZNgksQ
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) October 13, 2025
Omri Miran, who was kidnapped from his home in Nahal Oz, reunited with his wife and two young daughters.
Together again pic.twitter.com/uq8O4Qsg7a
— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) October 13, 2025
❤️🩹 Omri Miran has been reunited with his two little girls who were just 6 months and 2 years old when he was taken hostage 🥺 pic.twitter.com/uxNABpe6ik
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 13, 2025
