Former Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker (C-R), who was held captive in Gaza since the 2023 October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants, stands next to his girlfriend and former hostage Ilana Gritsevsky (C-L) and his mother Einav Zangauker upon disembarking from an Israeli military helicopter on the landing pad at Ichilov Sourasky Medical Centre in Tel Aviv on October 13, 2025. Twenty living Israeli hostages were released on October 13 after more than two years in captivity in Gaza, as part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Militants kidnapped them during Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the deadliest in the country's history.