Two young daughters of a Portuguese father were among the 17 hostages released on Saturday by Hamas, a source from the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed this Sunday to the Lusa agency, information initially collected by CNN Portugal.
According to Portuguese television, which confirmed, in turn, information from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz with the Comunidade Israelita do Porto (CIP), the two minors are daughters of Dror Or, a Jew of Sephardic descent and who, therefore, obtained the language. Portuguese. nationality, granted after being kidnapped by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
Alma, 13, and Noam Or, 17, were kidnapped with their father after Hamas entered Israel on October 7. The young woman’s mother was murdered that same day.
Dror Or, 48, remains among the Hamas hostages.
With Dror, Alma and Noam Or was 18-year-old Liam Or, who is Dror’s nephew and also remains a Hamas hostage.
After Adina Moshe, a Portuguese-Israeli woman, this is another liberation linked to Portugal.
Early on Friday afternoon, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, had indicated that, among the criteria established for the release of the hostages taken by Hamas – giving priority to women and children -, “there would eventually be a person” who could “be released in the coming days”, but the Portuguese Government still had no guarantee to this effect.
The four-day truce came into effect at 7 a.m. Friday (5 a.m. in Lisbon) after more than a month and a half of war, as part of an agreement to free 50 Israeli hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners.
The ceasefire was even at risk, after Hamas said that Israel was not fulfilling its part, but an intervention by Egypt and Qatar helped unblock the situation.
The war broke out when members of Hamas invaded southern Israel, killing at least 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking hostages, including babies, women and the elderly, as well as soldiers.
The Israeli bombings, now in their seventh week, have killed more than 14,500 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Source: TSF
