Vile moment Israeli hostages are given ‘gift bags’ by Hamas terrorists with ‘certificate & photos’ before they are freed

THIS is the vile infinitesimal the 3 Israeli hostages were handed Hamas "gift bags" containing haunting mementos of their captivity conscionable earlier they were freed.

The bags reportedly included photos of the women during their imprisonment and a alleged "certificate," a grim reminder of their 15-month nightmare successful Gaza.

The twisted spectacle was captured successful a propaganda video released by Hamas connected Sunday.

It showed the 3 terrified women - Emily Damari, 28, Romi Gonen, 24, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31 - being mobbed by crowds arsenic they were transferred to Red Cross officials astatine a cardinal quadrate successful Gaza City.

Masked operatives with instrumentality guns flanked the hostages, portion hundreds of Palestinians gathered to ticker the tense exchange.

The footage paints a chilling representation of the ordeal these women endured, with their fearfulness evident arsenic they climbed retired of a Hamas van into Red Cross vehicles.

Emily Damari, a British-Israeli dual citizen, returned location connected Sunday aft enduring what her household described arsenic a “horrendous ordeal.”

Her mum, Mandy, issued a heartfelt statement, saying: "After 471 days Emily is yet home.

"I privation to convey everyone who ne'er stopped warring for Emily passim this horrendous ordeal, and who ne'er stopped saying her name.

"In Israel, Britain, the United States, and astir the world. Thank you for bringing Emily home."

The affectional toll was disposable successful the archetypal representation of Emily pursuing her release—a snapshot of her grinning during a video telephone with her brother, her bandaged manus a stark reminder of the unit she survived.

Emily mislaid 2 fingers aft being changeable by Hamas during the October 7 onslaught connected her kibbutz, Kfar Aza, wherever she was ambushed.

The long-awaited merchandise comes arsenic the fragile ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas holds aft months of relentless warfare.

The truce was astir derailed successful the last hours of negotiations, but hostages were exchanged arsenic portion of the deal, marking the archetypal measurement toward a tenuous intermission successful hostilities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made wide this ceasefire is temporary, emphasising: “We are committed to dismantling Hamas and bringing each hostage home.”

The reunion of the hostages with their families successful confederate Israel was a infinitesimal of earthy emotion.

The 3 women hugged their mothers tightly aft being handed implicit by Red Cross teams to Israeli Defense Forces personnel.

Comfort items, including a leopard-print broad for Romi Gonen, were provided successful IAF helicopters arsenic portion of efforts to easiness their return.

But the harrowing footage of their transportation from Hamas terrorists to the Red Cross casts a acheronian shadiness implicit the alleviation of their release.

Activists and campaigners similar Max Radford, from Finchley, person called for stronger planetary unit connected extremist groups.

He said earlier today: “This is lone the beginning. There are inactive 95 hostages successful captivity. We cannot remainder until they are each free.

“We person to basal up to Iran, we person to basal up to Hamas, we person to basal up to Hezbollah, the Houthis, and anyone other who has this jihadist ideology due to the fact that it’s conscionable not compatible with modern time civilisation.”