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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Freed soldier hostages watch release of comrade Agam Berger

Freed hostages (L-R) Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Daniella Gilboa and Karina Ariev watch at the Rabin Medical Center as their IDF surveillance soldier colleague Agam Berger is released from Hamas captivity in Gaza on January 30, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)
Freed hostages Naama Levy, Liri Albag, Karina Ariev and Daniella Gilboa watch as their friend and comrade Agam Berger is released from Hamas captivity in Gaza.
A photo of the four released hostages was published by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Dr. Lena Koren Feldman, director of Rabin Medical Center, says that when the four watched Berger being released “there were screams of joy and great excitement.”
“Her return marks an essential step in their collective healing,” Feldman says.
Berger is slated to be brought to the same hospital where the four other soldiers are being treated, to be reunited after they were separated a week ago.
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