Here’s what we know about the released Israeli hostages.

After nearly seven weeks of captivity, hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other groups during the October 7 attack on southern Israel have been released as part of a deal that halted fighting in the Gaza Strip.

The first group of 13 Israeli hostages – all women and children – were handed over to Israeli officials on Friday, along with five others who had been released or rescued earlier in the fighting. Twelve of the newly released people were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, where about 75 people lived. taken hostage during the first attack. One of the thirteen comes from Kibbutz Nirim.

In addition, 10 Thais and one Filipino were also released.

Here’s what we know about the newly freed Israelis.

Keren Munder, 54; Ohad Munder Zichri, 9; Ruth Munder, 78

Keren Munder and her son, Ohad Munder Zichri, residents of Kfar Saba in central Israel, were visiting her parents, Ruth and Abraham Munder, at Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza border, when the October 7 attack occurred.

Ruth and Abraham’s son Roee, 50, was killed in the attack. Ohad celebrated his ninth birthday in captivity on October 23. Abraham, 78, is believed to still be held in Gaza.

According to Kibbutz Nir Oz, Ruth is a retired hairdresser and seamstress. Keren teaches children with special needs.

Danielle Aloni; Amelia Aloni, 5

Danielle Aloni and her daughter Amelia were taken hostage while visiting Mrs. Aloni’s sister, Sharon Cunio, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz.

They were kidnapped along with Sharon, her husband David Cunio and their twins, Emma and Yuli, 3.

The last their family heard from them was a message on WhatsApp that read: “Help, we are dying.”

Hamas later distributed a video of Ms. Aloni in captivity.

Adina Moshe, 72

Ms Moshe was last seen on October 7 between two armed men on a motorcycle entering Gaza. She was kidnapped from her safe room in Kibbutz Nir Oz after her husband, Sa’id Moshe, was killed in the Hamas attack.

Naama Ben-Dvora, Ms. Moshe’s niece, told an Israeli broadcaster that she felt “a sense of very, very great relief, and of course happiness and hope that they would all come home.”

Jaffa Adar, 85

According to her family, Mrs. Adar helped establish Kibbutz Nir Oz in the 1950s. She was kidnapped with her grandson Tamir Adar, 38, who remains in captivity.

A photo of Ms. Adar’s kidnapping became one of the defining images of the October 7 attack. She was photographed wrapped in a pink blanket as she sat in a golf cart being driven into Gaza by militants.

Hanna Katzir, 76

Ms. Katzir helped oversee child care at Kibbutz Nir Oz for years, according to a cousin, Dalit Katzenellenbogen, who lives in Tel Aviv. She is a grandmother of six children who walks with a walker. She was abducted to Gaza on October 7 along with her son, Elad Katzir, 47. Her husband, Rami, was killed in the attack on October 7.

Islamic Jihad, an armed Palestinian group that helped lead the attack, had recently claimed that Ms. Katzir had died in captivity and said she would provide evidence, which never materialized.

Hanna Peri, 79

Ms. Peri, one of five people captured from Kibbutz Nirim on October 7, emigrated to Israel from South Africa in the 1960s and has lived in Nirim ever since. Mrs. Peri worked in the community grocery store. One of her three children was killed in the October 7 attack and another was abducted to Gaza and is believed to still be in captivity there.

Ms Peri has diabetes, suffers from severe vision loss in one of her eyes and enjoys gardening and taking tai chi classes, according to the Hostages Family Forum, a non-governmental organization advocating for the release of the hostages and supporting their families.

Margalit Mozes, 77

Ms. Moses, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, is a nature lover and cancer survivor. According to the Hostages Family Forum, she also suffers from diabetes and other chronic health conditions.

Despite her poor health, the forum says, she enjoys walking. She traveled to Norway in the summer and planned to visit Mozambique this winter.

Doron Katz Asher, 34; Raz Asher, 4; Aviv Aser, 2

Ms. Katz Asher was kidnapped with her two young daughters, Raz and Aviv Asher, and her mother, Efrat Katz, 67, while they were staying at her mother’s home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Ms. Katz Asher’s husband, Yoni Asher, 37, last heard from her on Oct. 7, when she called him to say terrorists were in her mother’s house.

He later saw all four of his relatives in a video on social media, showing them being driven through Gaza on the back of a pickup truck. While remotely monitoring his wife’s phone, Mr. Asher saw that the device had been taken to Khan Younis, a town in southern Gaza.

Efrat Katz has not been released.