Greater than 100 hostages held within the Gaza Strip were launched since they had been taken within the cross-border Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel.Estimates for the whole choice of hostages seized within the assault that left some 1,200 other people useless in Israel have shifted over the process the conflict. As of Thursday, 143 hostages stay in Gaza, in keeping with numbers supplied by means of Israel, however the nation has no longer given the whole foundation for its estimates.A deal between Israel and Hamas, mediated by means of Qatar, has paused the preventing since Nov. 24 and allowed for the discharge of hostages who’re ladies and kids in alternate for Palestinian ladies and teenagers held in Israeli prisons. Because the pause started, 75 Israeli electorate — together with those that additionally cling citizenship from different international locations — were launched. Below the deal’s framework, each Israeli hostage freed would start up the discharge of 3 Palestinian prisoners. Out of doors the framework of the alternate deal, 24 overseas nationals — who don’t cling Israeli citizenship — were launched because the pause started. Ahead of the deal, some hostages — together with two American citizens — had been additionally launched or rescued.The demographics and nationalities of the hostages believed to be final in Gaza — and precisely what number of have died whilst in captivity — stays unclear. Israel has estimated that almost all of the ones final have Israeli citizenship and are males, together with squaddies. It’s unclear how most of the final hostages could also be within the Israeli army. Fewer than 10 U.S. electorate stay hostages, in keeping with the White Space.Whilst Hamas is assumed to carry lots of the hostages, some are believed to be held by means of different militant teams, together with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose opponents took phase within the Oct. 7 assault. Israel mentioned it came upon the our bodies of no less than two hostages it claimed had been killed in captivity. Hamas says Israeli moves have killed some hostages. The Washington Publish may no longer independently examine all sides’s declare.Here’s a checklist of the hostages launched thus far and what’s recognized about those that stay.