Hope for some families of freed Israeli hostages, while harrowing uncertainty continues for others
by Dan Sabbagh in Tel Aviv from World news | The Guardian on (#6GNCH)
We don't know how much time they will be able to hold on for,' says relative of one elderly captive
For a handful there is relief. A nine-year-old boy, Ohad Munder, is filmed running to meet his father for the first time after being held for 49 days in Gaza. But for the majority of families - now Israel's most potent social force - there remains anxiety and a desperate hope that the truce and hostage releases can continue.
In some cases the two stories come together. Noam Peiri, a daughter of 79-year-old peace activist Haim Peri, who lived on the Nir Oz kibbutz, learned overnight of a sign of life" of her father from some of the first group released on Friday, other members of the same kibbutz who were kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October.
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