Hamas Releases Four Women Hostages

Yesterday, Hamas freed four Israeli women soldiers held hostage in Gaza for 477 days — Liri Elbag (f, 19, from Moshav Yeruhav), Daniela Gilboa (f, 20, Bulgarian-Israeli from Petah Tikvah), Naama Levy (f, 20, from Ra’anana) and Karina Ariev (f, 20, from Jerusalem)

All four were stationed at an observation post in Nahal Oz near the Gaza border, when the Muslim terrorists overran their base and abducted them October 7, 2023.

Under the ceasefire agreement, Hamas is to release a total of 33 hostages over six weeks, while Israel agreed to release about 1,900 Palestinians prisoners, including 90 women and youth freed last Sunday, and about 200 prisoners, some convicted of dangerous crimes, yesterday.

Hamas was to release civilian Arbel Yahod (f, 28), girlfriend of hostage Ariel Cunio, as one of the four women freed yesterday, but they did not. According to the agreement, Israel will not allow Palestinians to return home to Gaza’s north until she is freed. Hamas is also required to provide Israel with information on the condition of the remaining hostages to be freed during the ceasefire.

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Pray for Israel, Gaza and Lebanon in These Trying Times

Father God, please have mercy. Please heal the minds and hearts of Liri, Daniela, Naama, Karina and every hostage who has been abused, and make the way for the safe and quick release of all those alive who are still held prisoner in Gaza. Bring down every terrorist and release both Palestinians and Israelis from the oppression of Hamas. Please be intricately involved in the healing of these hostages who are now free, as well as other people who survived the massacres. Bring Christians to each of them to show them Your love and share with them Your good news. Provide Christian counselors, doctors and aid workers to help them to healing. Burn within them a deep desire to know the Truth who sets them free, the Messiah they have looked for, their Savior, Jesus. Give them dreams and visions to point them to You. Place Bibles in their hands. Lift the veil from their eyes and show them who You really are. Be near to the hostages still held in Gaza. Let them feel Your presence and hear Your voice speaking tenderly to them. Tend to all their needs, comfort them with Your love, and show them the way to salvation. Place Your angels around them as a shield, and make those heavenly hosts visible to the terrorists who guard them. Invade the dreams of every terrorist and show them the way to salvation. Make them so repulsed by the atrocities they have committed, appalled by the horrors of religion gone wrong, that they lay aside Islam and seek Jesus. Give hostages favor with their guards and give the guards courage to go against Hamas’ commands and do what is right and good. Father God, we ask You for miracles. Share with every Palestinian and every Hamas terrorist the good news that brings peace. Draw them up into Your arms to receive Christ as Savior before it’s too late. Awaken Gaza, awaken Israel, awaken Hamas, awaken every hostage, every survivor, every Palestinian, every Jew, every family to Your love. Don’t let even one more person die without hearing the good news of Your salvation.

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