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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Images show released hostage Agam Berger being handed over to IDF, meeting parents
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First images emerge of freed hostage Agam Berger reuniting with her family at an IDF facility inside Israel after being freed from captivity.
Agam embraces her parents, Shlomi and Merav, after arriving in Israel from Gaza following her handover from the Red Cross to IDF troops.
In video of that handover, Agam is seen emerging from a Red Cross vehicle, no longer wearing the fake military uniform she was forced by Hamas to don for the handover. She embraces an IDF medical officer before getting into another vehicle to exit the Strip.
???? The moment Agam was reunited with the IDF after 482 days of being surrounded by terrorists: pic.twitter.com/V7tAtJJkxC
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) January 30, 2025
Agam will undergo an initial medical check before being brought to Rabin Medical Center, where she will meet the rest of her family and reunite with the four other observation soldiers freed on Saturday.
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