inside, killing a number of the people who were in the bomb shelter, blew half of herch s lower arm off, so like one of the other israeli hostages, mia shem, who had serious injuries, he was taken captive and brought into gaza with very, very serious injury, and his mother rachel has no idea if he survived that ordeal. if he received appropriate medical treatment, where he is, what his status is. so it has to be awfully difficult seeing these hostages come home known her son, herch, is still in custody somewhere in gaza. sandra: ophelia brightman, 77 years old, also one of the hostages just released, she came to israel from argentina holding argentine citizenship. she s the wife of hector, mother of three children, grandmother of nine children. she had sent her last message to her family asking for help, stating that the terrorists were in her house and since that moment of her that she was taken, john, her contact had been severed and you can only imagine what is happeni
sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. we re watching images both in the west bank where they are releasing palestinian prisoners and the israeli prisoners, hostages, that were released on the right-hand side of your screen. 12 women who walked their way to freedom just moments ago. they were brought out in the vehicles that we have seen and become familiar with. there were no americans that were released in this latest wave. we think partly because they have committed to releasing women and children first and we believe that the remaining eight to nine americans are all men. so we obviously stay on top of that story as we wait for good news for their families. these ten israelis ranging from 17 to 84. these harrowing accounts that are beginning to trickle in about life, what life was like for these individuals when they were in captivity. the aunt of this now free little boy, 12-year-old ethan, says he was force to watch videos of the october 7th attack. look at this