After more than 15 months of fighting, Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage agreement, giving families hope that their loved ones will soon be able to return home.

In the first phase of the deal, Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages over six weeks - starting with the release of three hostages on Sunday. Israel said it would release 1,900 Palestinians from Israeli prisons as part of this phase.

The list of 33 people released from Gaza includes men, women and children, ranging in age from 1 to 86 years old. Two of them are U.S. citizens and some others hold European citizenship.

They were mainly among the 250 people captured during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered the Gaza War. Many were abducted from kibbutz communities and techno music festivals near the Palestinian enclave. Two people on the list of 33 were arrested in the years before the war.

Due to the sensitivity of the negotiations, a Hamas official confirmed the identities of the 33 hostages in an interview with NPR. In the list below, their ages and other backgrounds are based on information shared by the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, a group representing relatives of captives.

Lily Albaugh, 19

Arbagh and six other female Israeli soldiers were taken hostage at the Nahal Oz military base on the Gaza border during a Hamas-led attack.

Karina Aliyev, 20

Aliyev was a soldier serving at the Nahar Oz base in Israel when she was taken hostage.

Ohad Ben Ami, 56

Ben Ami, a German-Israeli accountant, and his wife Raz Ben Ami were arrested at their home in Kibbutz Be'eri. Taken hostage. Raz was released in November 2023 as part of the ceasefire.

Agam Berger, 20

Berger served in the Israeli army and was abducted from the Nahal Oz base.

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Shiri, 33, Yarden, 35, Ariel, 5, and Kfir Bibas, 1, were taken hostage by Mujahedin militants from kibbutz Nir Oz. Kfir was only 9 months old at the time and was the youngest hostage kidnapped on October 7, 2023.

Ofer Calderon, 54

Calderon, a French and Israeli citizen, and two of his four children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were robbed from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz as hostages. The children were released in November 2023.

Elijah Cohen, 27

Cohen was captured at the Nova Music Festival.

Emily Damari, 28

Damali, a dual Israeli-British citizen, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Kaffa Azha.

Saji Decker-Chan, 36

Dekel-Chen, a project manager for the British charity JNF UK and a US and Israeli citizen, was arrested at Kibbutz Nir ​​Oz.

Yitzhak Elgarat, 69

Elgarat, who was responsible for the maintenance of Kibbutz Nir Oz, was shot dead in his kibbutz home before being captured. He holds Danish citizenship.

Daniella Gilboa, 20

Israeli soldier Gilboa was kidnapped from the Nahal Oz base.

Romy Gonen, 24

Gonen was kidnapped at the Nova Festival.

Eelhorn, 46

Iair Horn is an event producer whose family immigrated to Israel from Argentina, and he and his brother Eitan moved from Kibbutz Nir Oz ) was kidnapped.

Chucky Ivan, 50

Idan's eldest daughter Maayan, 18, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz after being shot through the safe room door.

Naama Levy, 20

Israeli soldier Levi was kidnapped from the Nahal Oz surveillance base near the Gaza border.

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He was captured at the Nova Music Festival. His wife, Eynav Elkayam Levy, was killed there. They left their toddler son with family before heading to the festival.

Oded Lifshitz, 84

Lifshitz was captured from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his 85-year-old wife Yocheved, who was held for 17 days before being released. The couple are peace activists and one of the founders of Kibbutz Neal Oz.

Shlomo Manzoor, 86

Manzoor, who was born in Iraq, is the oldest Hamas hostage. He was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Kisufim, where his wife of 60 years, Mazal, fled during the attack.

Avila Mengistu, 38

Mengistu, an Israeli of Ethiopian origin, was captured by Hamas after crossing the Israeli border into Gaza in 2014. He is the longest-held Israeli hostage in the Gaza Strip.

Gaddy Moses Mozes, 80

Mozes was a farmer and potato expert who was abducted from Kibbutz Nil Oz.

Hisham Saeed, 36

Israeli Bedouins have been imprisoned by Hamas for nearly 10 years. It is unclear how he crossed the Israeli-Gaza barrier in April 2015.

Eliyahu Chalabi, 52

Sharabi was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri, as was his brother Yossi Sharabi, 53, who was later killed. Eliyahu Sharabi's wife Lianne and two children were killed in the attack.

Omar Shem Tov, 22

He was captured at the Nova Music Festival.

Tal Shoham, 40

Shoham, who has Austrian and Israeli citizenship, and his family were taken from Kibbutz Beeri. His wife and children have been released from Gaza, but Shoham remains imprisoned.

Keith Siegel, 65

Siegel is an occupational therapist from North Carolina and a dual citizen of Israel and the United States. He immigrated to Israel from the United States about 40 years ago and settled in Kfar Azha Kibbutz. He and his wife Aviva Siegel Kidnapped there on October 7, 2023. He was released during the ceasefire the following month.

Doron Steinbrecher, 31

Steinbrecher was kidnapped from his apartment at Kibbutz Kaffa Azha.

Alexander Trufanov, 29

Troufanov is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was captured on October 7, 2023, along with his relatives.

Omar Venkert, twenty three

Winkert, a restaurant manager in the Israeli city of Ekron, was kidnapped during the Nova Music Festival.

Ohad Yaharomi, 50

Yahalomi, an Israeli and French citizen, was evacuated from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife Batsheva, 12-year-old son and three young daughters. captured. His son Eitan was taken to Gaza and released in November 2023. His wife and daughter managed to escape during the kidnapping.

Abel Yehud, 29

She was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz along with her boyfriend Ariel Cunio.