The Stories Behind The Pictures: The First Four Murdered Hostages To Return

Jerusalem, 14 October, 2025 (TPS-IL) — CAPT. DANIEL SHIΜON PERETZ
Daniel Shimon Peretz was kidnapped alive but declared dead after 163 days in captivity.  Peretz was stationed at Nahal Oz and his tank crew helped repel many terrorists.Peretz was wounded and kidnapped. He was fighting alongside Matan Angrest, who was one of the 20 hostages released from captivity last Monday and Staff Sgt. Itay Chen an American-Israeli. Chen’s body has not been returned yet.

GUY ILLOUZ
Guy Illouz, from Tel Aviv, was abducted from the Nova music festival. He appeared fleeing the site of the massacre in which he is heard saying that he was being shot at and that his friend Alon was murdered. His family was informed about his death two months after his abduction, He died from his injuries in captivity after being denied medical treatment at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital.

bipin joshi
Bipin Joshi was a 24-year-old Nepali Hindu student and agricultural worker was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7. He was murdered while in captivity in the early months of the Gaza war. Bipin Joshi arrived to Israel one month before his abduction under the “Learn and Earn” program, a vocational training initiative for young Nepalis to study agriculture while working on farms.

YOSSI SHARABI
The body of Yossi Sharabi was the brother of Eli Sharabi, a former hostage freed in February whose British-Israeli wife and two young daughters were murdered. Yossi Sharabi’s widow, Nira, said that the family can now “end the nightmare that started more than two years ago and allow Yossi a respectful and loving burial in the soil of Kibbutz Be’eri that he loved so much”.