The family of 80-year-old Gadi Mozes, who was freed from captivity in Gaza yesterday after almost 16 months, call his return “a miracle,” in a statement released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
“No one in the world is happier than we are. Light has returned to our lives thanks to this life-saving deal,” the family says.
“We received a miracle — our father and grandfather Gadi has returned to us healthy and whole after a year and four months of uncompromising struggle filled with fear, terror, despair, worry, and lack of air.”
Mozes was one of ten Israeli abductees released to date under a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas that came into effect last week.
“We continue this long and important struggle because all the hostage families and the people of Israel deserve to experience this moment. Whether for rehabilitation or for burial.”
It is believed that 79 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
Three more male hostages are expected to be released tomorrow under the ceasefire deal.
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