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Matan Zangauker Sees His Mother After Being Released by Hamas

For the first time in two years, Matan Zangauker is reunited with his mother following the deal which included the release of all the Israeli hostages by Hamas.

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Ariel and David Cunio were released last Monday as part of the agreement between Israel and the terrorist group. “I want to embrace them,” he says from southern Israel as he prepares a huge tray of homemade empanadas to welcome his grandchildren.

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The last surviving Israeli hostages released by Hamas on Monday were mostly men in their 20s who had spent two years in captivity. The oldest hostage, at 48, was Omri Miran, an Israeli-Hungarian citizen who the Palestinian terrorist organization claimed to have lost contact with just two weeks ago.

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Israeli actor David Cunio is free, his family announced, adding that they have already contacted him by phone and that he is on his way home. The freed man was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, from Kibbutz Nir Oz. His fate is told in the documentary Letter to David by director Tom Shoval, which recaps his fate before the kidnapping and ends with the wish that David return as soon as possible to his family, who never lost hope of embracing him again.

Hamas has released the last 20 Israeli hostages it maintained, as part of the peace agreements that were protected by the U.S. government. Among those released is Matan Zangauker, a couple of Mexican-Israeli women Ilana Gritzewsky. Related news: Photos and Videos: This Was the Liberation of Hostages in Gaza Following the Agreement between Israel and Hamas The Israeli embassy in Mexico announced that Matan Zangauker, a couple of Mexican women Ila…

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Al-Monitor broke the news in Washington, United States on Monday, October 13, 2025.
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