For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas captivity.

One of the Israeli hostages freed on the first day of the Gaza ceasefire said Monday in her first comments since being released that she has “returned to life.”.

Hamas-led militants has released eight hostages after more than 15 months in captivity.

Dozens of Palestinian prisoners have been freed by Israel after three hostages left Hamas captivity in an exchange that took place after 15 months of collective grief and anxiety.