Two young children of a man of Portuguese nationality are among the 11 hostages released this Monday by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the Comunidade Israelita do Porto (CIP) reported in a statement.
Erez Kalderon, 12, and Sahar Kalderon, 16, son and daughter respectively, were released, as they have French nationality, like their mother Hadas Dan, reads the CIP note to which the agency had access. Lusa.
These young people are children of Ofer Kalderon, a 53-year-old Portuguese citizen, who remains a Hamas hostage.
Also according to the CIP, the young people’s maternal grandmother, Carmella Dan, was murdered on October 7, the day of the Islamic group’s attack on Israel, which included the launching of more than four thousand rockets and the infiltration of nearly three thousand militants. . which killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 240 in Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip.
TO TSF The Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already been questioned, but so far it has not been possible to confirm the release of the young people.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, celebrated this Monday the release of three young minors, including Erez and Sahar, as well as 12-year-old Eitan.
“Three of our young compatriots are part of the group of hostages released today. I am very happy with this announcement. We are mobilized for the release of all those kidnapped,” Macron highlighted on social networks.
In addition to the three young men of French nationality, six Israelis of Argentine nationality and two others of German nationality were released this Monday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
On Saturday, two young children of a Portuguese father, Alma, 13, and Noam Or, 17, were among 17 hostages freed by Hamas.
Adina Moshe, a 72-year-old Portuguese-Israeli, was also released since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The truce, which was initially agreed for four days, was extended today for two days, in accordance with the Qatari mediation.
In this way, the humanitarian truce will continue under the same conditions as the previous one, until 7:00 a.m. on Thursday (5:00 a.m. Lisbon time).
Since the Hamas attack, Israel’s air, naval and ground forces have counterattacked in the Palestinian enclave, where more than 15,000 people have died, according to authorities in the Gaza Strip, controlled since 2007 by Hamas, most of them children and women. , and It is estimated that more than seven thousand people are missing under the rubble.
Source: TSF
