From the Liveblog of
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Freed hostages reunite with family in pictures, video; Gadi Mozes: ‘I’ll do everything I can to rehabilitate Nir Oz’
Amy Spiro is a reporter and writer with The Times of Israel
Photos and video shows freed hostage Gadi Mozes, 80, reuniting with his family at an IDF facility near Re’im.
Mozes cries as he is embraced by his three tearful children, Yair, Moran and Oded. Yair refused to shave his beard for 482 days until his father was returned.
“I’ll do everything I can to rehabilitate Nir Oz,” he says in a video.
Freed hostage Gadi Mozes returning to Israeli hands on January 30, 2025. (IDF)
He says that while in captivity he heard his ex-wife Margalit, who was also kidnapped but released in November 2023, when she would speak to the media.
“I heard a bit from your mother, talking on the radio,” he says.
Mozes’s longtime partner, Efrat Katz, was killed on October 7.
Other pictures sent out by authorities show fellow freed hostage Arbel Yehoud locked in a tight hug with her family at an IDF facility near Gaza, and joking around with them while on an IDF helicopter.
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