By ANDY JEHRING IN TEL AVIV – Published: 16:33 EST, 24 January 2025 | Updated: 06:02 EST, 25 January 2025 – Daily Mail

My cmnt: Notice that just four Israeli girls are worth 200 Hamas, male terrorists! I would be embarrassed to make that deal. What it seriously shows is how Jews value life vs. how Muslims value life. These Muslim cowards building their weapons depots and military barracks under hospitals, schools and nurseries. Islam – the religion of conquest, war, violence, subjugation, rape, pillage, murder, kidnapping women and sexual slavery. See these posts here, here, here and here to better under this cult of death called a “religion of peace”.

Hamas announced it will release four out of the five female Israeli soldiers whose fight for freedom has been championed by the Daily Mail.

Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, who are all 20, and Liri Albag, 19, are expected to be freed after 15 nightmare months in Gaza.

Cruelly, Agam Berger, 20, was not on the list, splitting up the families who have campaigned relentlessly together to bring them all home.

Agam Berger’s cousin Ashley Waxman Bakshi, 38, told the Mail the terror group is using the hostage release to continue its ‘psychological warfare’ against Israelis.

Israeli hostage, Liri Albag, a soldier who was seized from her army base in southern Israel during the deadly October 7, 2023

Daniela Gilboa is among the four female Israeli soldiers to be freed on Saturday

Karina Ariev is among the four female Israeli soldiers who were held hostage for 15 months

Naama Levy is one of the hostages currently being held in Gaza and set to be freed on Saturday

‘It’s just an awful feeling that we’ve gone back to the days of the Holocaust, where we have lists determining who’s going to have what fate.’

Hamas should let Israel know today how many of the 30 hostages remaining in the first phase are alive. But it is feared they won’t name them, only state the number of the living out of each category – women, elderly, and sick – to prolong the families’ suffering.

It is hoped Agam will be freed next Saturday. She was doing national service as an unarmed observer at Nahal Oz base when she was taken captive along with Daniella, Naama, Karina, and Liri.

The four women will be freed in exchange for 200 Palestinians today. They are expected to include the former Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, who was once on Israel’s ‘most wanted’ list.

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The four youngest Israeli female hostages gave a defiant thumbs up in the face of their Hamas captors yesterday as they were finally freed from captivity after 477 days.

Flanked by gun-toting terrorists, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev and Liri Albag smiled and waved at crowd of extremists before being escorted out of Gaza.

Last night the 19 and 20-year-old soldiers – who were on compulsory national service as unarmed border observers when they were captured – were finally back home.

Their families told of their ‘immense gratitude and joy’ as images showed them embracing for the first time since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

Their release followed an extraordinary campaign by each of their mothers which was championed by the Mail. Our powerful reports, showing the girls’ bloodied faces in captivity, were taken to the UN and the Hague and helped put them at the top of the hostage release list.

The families told The Mail on Sunday last year how they have endured psychological terror throughout, with Hamas creating multiple

hostage videos of their daughters. Then, two months ago, Hamas faked images suggesting Daniella had been killed in an Israeli air strike.

At times it appeared the young women might never return, as mediators repeatedly failed to close a second ceasefire deal since the first in November 2023.

Flanked by gun-toting terrorists, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev and Liri Albag smiled and waved at crowd of extremists before being escorted out of Gaza 

Liri Albag embraces loved ones after being released as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal

Members from the Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades are deployed at Palestine Square in Gaza City ahead of further exchange of hostages 

Daniella Gilboa had an emotional reunion with her family after nearly 500 days in captivity 

But the mothers never gave up hope and, following the ‘pressure tactics’ of US President Donald Trump to secure an agreement this month, against all the odds they finally emerged smiling yesterday.

Their pale skin was the only immediate indication of what they had suffered in the tunnels of Gaza.

There were fears they may have been drugged, after hostages released in November 2023 reported being given medication to make them appear happy.

In a twisted handover ceremony, the women were also handed ‘goodie bags’ by Hamas containing pictures of themselves in captivity and ‘graduation certificates’.

They were then loaded into a Red Cross car and whisked out of the Strip to where their parents were waiting by the border. Daniella’s mother Orly, 49, who steadfastly refused to believe claims her daughter had died, was seen wrapping her in her arms as she broke down in tears.

Ayelet Levy Shachar, 51, sprinted to her daughter Naama before she gently caressed her head – more than a year after she told The Mail on Sunday how she imagined brushing her hair each night to soothe her in the tunnels. The Levy family said they were ‘overjoyed and moved to see Naama standing strong and returning to us’.

The women were loaded into a military helicopter and flown to a hospital in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv. Liri, who just last month was paraded in a sickening hostage video begging for her life, was seen making a heart with her hands and told cameras: ‘I love you, citizens of the State of Israel, IDF soldiers and my family. I’m back.’

Daniella Gilboa waved out of the window as the aircraft touched down in front of a huge crowd

Daniella Gilboa, gestures as she leaves a military helicopter upon landing at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva

People watch a military helicopter carrying the four released Israeli female hostages, landing at Rabin Medical Center

The hostages were reunited with their loved ones in emotional scenes on Saturday 

Daniella Gilboa is embraced by her parents after their long-awaited reunion