Israel At War Oct 13 הושענא רבה

 Israel at war day 738 הושענא רבה תשפ"ו

Hostages returning home

All living hostages are now back home

ברוך מתיר אסורים

- After 738 days or  2 years of daily tehilim in shuls, today the kapital of Mizmor Lesodah was said at several shuls as the hostages returned home.

- President Trump confirms he has been approached by several wealthy countries who will pitch in to rebuild Gaza

-Trump: We've all agreed that supporting Gaza must be done, but we don't want to fund anything having to do with bloodshed, hatred, and terror...For this same reason, we also agreed that Gaza’s reconstruction requires that it be demilitarized...

All hostages have been taken from the initial reception area to the hospitals in Israel

-Israel accuses Hamas of violating deal after group says it’s handing over only 4 bodies

- Trump at the Gaza summit in Egypt is asked:

Q: "The living hostages have been returned. Can you please tell us what the next steps are...?" Trump: "They're going and looking for bodies... and they're doing it in conjunction with Israel—and they're going to be finding quite a few of them

- Trump in Egypt: "We're having an amazing period of time like I think nobody's seen before. We had a tremendous stop in Israel, and now, we're in a country where a friend of mine is a powerful leader

- Netanyahu: I have to tell you, I've seen a lot of American presidents. I've seen a lot in the time that I've been here, and I've been here quite a lot of time.""I've never seen anyone move the world so quickly, so decisively, so resolutely as our friend, President Donald J. Trump."

Hamas said they will release The bodies of: Yossi Shraibi, Guy Iluz, Daniel Peretz, and Bipin Joshi today. 

 Trump asks  President Herzog of Israel to give Benjamin Netanyahu "a pardon. The Knesset erupts into a standing ovation

"That was not in the speech! But I happen to like him, and it just seems to make so much sense.  

Trump speaks in the knesset    

- Trump may stop at Sheba  hospital where some freed hostages headed

- Several bodies of hostages will be transfered this afternoon  by Hamas to Israel. There are 28 bodies of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza

- President Trump to Israel's Ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, father of Major Moshe Leiter, who fell at the beginning of the war: “Your son is looking down with a smile, you know that, right?" Leiter replied: "Sir, when my son led our forces into battle, he told his soldiers, We are going on a mission to bring our brothers and sisters home. You, sir, and the Prime Minister have completed the mission he started."

- Trump signs the knesset guest book he wrote  “This is my great honor, a great and beautiful day, a new beginning.”

- Trump arrives in the Knesset greets reporters, says the war is officially over.

Hamas will comply and that today is a great day he's never seen anything like it  He wishes the hostages a great life after what they went through.

- Trump and Netanyahu are considering whether the Prime Minister will still attend the summit in Sharm El Sheikh.

All hostages are now in Israel there are no more living hostages in Gaza

- The 13 additional hostages are in relatively good condition. All are walking on their feet and communicating with their surroundings.

-Trump arrived in Israel, Netanyahu meets him at the airport and Bini joins Trump  for a ride in the presidential motorcade to Yerushalayim 

-The Red Cross has begun receiving the 13 hostages from the second batch

- Next hostage release will be from southern Gaza at 10:00am according to AL Jezeera

- The first seven hostages are in Israeli territory

1:15 am: 7 hostages are now in the hands of the red cross all walking on their own. Guy Gelboim-Dalal is the 7th hostage in the group who wasn't on the original list of 6 to be released first

 -IDF: "The Red Cross has notified us that is on its way to a meeting point in the northern Gaza Strip, where several hostages will be handed over to it. The IDF is prepared to receive additional hostages who are expected to be transferred to the Red Cross later."

- The families have been notified and the first group of hostages to be released will include: 

Matan Angrst

Alon Ahel

Eitan Mor

Omri Miran

Gali and Ziv Berman

- The first hostage release point will be from Northern Gaza. Estimates are 6-8 hostages will be released from this point around 8:00AM local time.

- Red Cross vehicles seen heading towards central Gaza as Hamas issues an official statement saying 20 hostages are being released alive and published their names. Bipin Joshi and Tamir Nimrodi, whose families know they are in grave danger, are not on the list

- Hamas has officially published the list of 20 living hostages it has "decided" to release this morning. This list matches the one that Israel has. 

Bar Kuperstein

Evyatar David

Yosef Haim Ohana

Segev Kalfon

Avintan Or

Elkana Bohbot

Maxim Harkin

Nimrod Cohen

Matan Tsengauker

David Kunyoo

Eitan Horn

Matan Angrist

Eitan Mor

Gali Berman

Ziv Berman

Omri Miran

Alon Ohel

Guy Gilboa-Dalal

Rom Breslavski

Ariel Kunyoo

-At the Nova memorial site: Hundreds gathered to daven vasikin awaiting for the safe return of the hostages

President Trump with pm Netanyahu  and Herzog