Hours after using gunfire and explosives to briefly violate their ceasefire with Israel, Hamas released 12 more hostages Tuesday. Among them was Ada Sagi, born in Tel Aviv in 1948 as the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Poland. Ada learned Arabic and taught it to others as a way to make friends with their Palestinian neighbors. She was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, where nearly half of its 400 residents were massacred or abducted on October 7.
Teen Mia Leimberg, abducted from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, stepped out of captivity holding her dog, Bella, who was also taken by Hamas. Mia's mother and aunt, who immigrated to Israel from Argentina, were freed with them, but like many others, they leave family members behind still held by Hamas.
Two Thais and a Filipino woman whose Israeli husband was murdered in the October 7 attack were also released after 53 days of captivity. In exchange, Israel handed over 30 Palestinian prisoners. That makes a total of 81 hostages released by Hamas during the truce and 150 prisoners, mostly women and teens, released by Israel.
For more information on all the freed hostages and to pray by name for those still held by Hamas, refer to our Israel-Gaza page:
Pray for Hostages by Name
Father God, please have mercy. Make a way for the release of all the hostages held prisoner in Gaza. Bring down every terrorist group and release both Palestinians and Israelis from the oppression of Hamas. Please be intricately involved in the healing of these hostages who have been released, as well as others 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, hear Your voice. Speak to them tenderly, tend to all their needs, comfort them with Your love, and show them the way to salvation. Place Your angels around them to guide and protect them, 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 their sin and by religion gone wrong, that they lay aside Islam and seek Truth until they find Him. Give hostages favor with their guards and give the guards courage to go against Hamas' commands and do what is right and good. Single out those You will use to arrange the escape of many hostages, and protect them as they step out in obedience to Your command. 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 family to Your love. Don't let even one more lost person die without hearing the good news of Your salvation.
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Pray for by name for the hostages held by Hamas and those already freed at the Prayer Wall's Israel-Gaza page:
https://prayerwallforthenationandtheworld.wordpress.com/Israel-Gaza. Let's push back the darkness together as one, and pray forth God's purposes in these trying times. "For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:1 rsv
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