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Friday, January 31, 2025
‘Dad’s coming! Dad’s on the list’: Freed hostage reacts to news her husband, Keith Siegel, will be freed tomorrow
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Shir Siegel, whose father Keith Siegel was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, and is still held in Gaza, posts footage of the moment her mother finds out he is slated for release tomorrow.
“Dad’s coming! Shirkush! Dad’s coming. Dad’s on the list,” cries Aviva Siegel, who was also kidnapped from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza in the Hamas onslaught and released in a week-long truce in November 2023.
Siegel, 65, a dual Israeli-US citizen originally hailing from North Carolina, is believed to be in poor health.
Israeli officials confirmed a short while ago that he will be released from Gaza tomorrow along with Ofer Calderon and Yarden Bibas, under the first phase of an ongoing hostage-ceasefire deal. Ten Israeli hostages have been released since the accord came into effect last week.
שיר סיגל, בתו של קית' שצפוי להשתחרר מחר מהשבי, תיעדה את אמה מקבל את הבשורה "שירקוש אבא ברשימה" pic.twitter.com/2aKu3SVmfb
— ישראל היום (@IsraelHayomHeb) January 31, 2025
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