Mr. Sighel’s wife, Adrien, said, “No one is happier than me” when she was shot in a car to go and meet her husband.
The French-Israeli family Mr. Calderon said they were “overflowing with joy, relief and emotions after 484 long and difficult days of unbearable expectation.”
They added that he “survived the months in a nightmare”, holding on to “hopes to accept children again.”
But others, like Liz Domski, had ambiguous feelings.
“They all have to go home,” she said while watching the case from the hostage square.
“I have a student there, Bar Cuper. I was a teacher in high school where he studied. We are very worried about him. We hope he’s back. He’s not in the first list.”
In Israel, there was a similar complexity of emotions about Mr. Bibbbba’s release, whose wife and two young sons, Ariel and Kfir were also abducted during Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
Hamas claimed that they were killed by Israeli airline at the beginning of the next war – but there were Named in the hostage list stated in January that is ready to release.
Tailoring the image of Kfir, which was only nine months old when he was taken away, Andrea Wittenberg remarked: “They are children. They should be at home. It is impossible to be in the newspaper.”
She added, “I don’t want to give up.”
Israeli President Isaac Duke called Mr Bibba’s return as “just wonderful”, saying that his country remained “deeply concerned” by his fate. “As a whole nation we keep them in the heart,” he wrote.
The Duke added that every hostage “deserves time to rehabilitate and restore their lives, and each of the hostages deserves a quick return home.”
