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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam

Who are the final 20 living hostages to have been freed from Gaza?

Cunio waves while holding hand of a woman with another woman in front and a man behind.
Ariel Cunio, an Israeli hostage released from the Gaza Strip, waves while arriving the Sheba medical centre in Ramat Gan, Israel. Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP

After more than 700 days in captivity, the remaining 20 hostages still alive in Gaza have been released, after the Israeli government’s ratification of a ceasefire deal with Hamas.

They were among the 251 people kidnapped during the 7 October attacks on southern Israel, in which Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people.

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