Hospital says kids, mothers released from Gaza ‘stable’

Families are being reunited and freed hostages are being checked out by medical staff after 17 people, including nine children, were released from Gaza earlier in the evening.

The head of Schnieder Children’s Hospital says nine children and two mothers were brought to the facility in Petah Tikva. “The physical condition of the nine children and two mothers is stable,” says Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev. She says they will also undergo psychological assessments.

Among the freed hostages at Schnieder are four members of the Almog-Goldstein family: mother Chen and young children Gal, 9, and Tal, 11, as well as daughter Agam, 17. Their father, Nadav, and their older sister, Yam, were killed during Hamas’s October 7 assault on southern Israel.

“The Almog-Goldstein family is again among us in Israel,” the kids’ aunt Inbar Goldstein tells Channel 12 news. “They are okay, in good condition and they are smiling. They know about the enormous tragedy that befell their family on that same black Shabbat. Now they will take time for a deep breath, to truly smile, and to start to pick up the pieces and continue the campaign until all the hostages are returned healthy and whole.”