‘I’m great, I’m great, I have a daughter’: Sagui Dekel-Chen ‘all smiles’ as he’s told of birth

15 February 2025, 11:02 am

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Hamas gunmen parade hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen on a stage before handing him over to a Red Cross team in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on February 15, 2025 (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

According to Channel 12, Sagui Dekel-Chen was “all smiles” as Israeli officials notified him that he has a one-year-old daughter.

Asked about his medical condition, the network says Dekel-Chen replied: “I’m great, I’m great, I have a daughter.”

His wife Avital Dekel-Chen tells Channel 12 of her joy to see Sagui released and her delight that he now knows he has a third daughter.

She says she will tell him she is so sorry it took so long for him to be freed, and that “all of Israel is with him.” She says, “There are more little children waiting for their fathers” and that Israel “must do all we can” to get all the rest of the hostages home.