His mom, Anat, posted on X/Twitter that “Matan’s bag was returned to me this week in a black plastic bag. How and when will Matan return?”
Gadgets belonging to Matan Angrest, understood to be one of many 20 residing hostages nonetheless held by Hamas within the Gaza Strip, have been recovered by the IDF on Friday, Angrest’s household confirmed.
His mom, Anat, posted on X/Twitter that “Matan’s bag was returned to me this week in a black plastic bag. How and when will Matan return? Why do I’ve to maintain receiving objects that testify to his situation and never Matan himself?
“They advised me they discovered Matan’s bag, and it will take two extra days for it to achieve me. I did not perceive what it was about. Then this bag arrived, with Matan’s identify in my handwriting,” she advised Ynet. The bag was Matan’s since his childhood.
Matan Angrest’s abduction to Gaza
“He was significantly injured in a tank on the morning of October 7, evacuated unconscious to Gaza after immense abuse,” she added. “Since then, he has been present process interrogations, bronchial asthma assaults, extreme burns, and his wounds have gotten contaminated by the humidity of the tunnels.
“When Edan Alexander was launched, we realized that we are able to speak in regards to the troopers. We should conduct robust negotiations and demand on Matan’s launch due to his situation.”
A screenshot from the Hamas propaganda video exhibiting Gaza hostage Matan Angrest, revealed on March 7, 2025 (credit score: SCREENSHOT/X/VIA SECTION 27A OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT)
Anat additionally talked about to Ynet that she hasn’t cooked since her son was taken hostage. “When Matan returns, I’ll return to cooking. Steaks, shakshuka, all the things he loves. What I am most wanting ahead to is sitting with him on Saturday morning, with the shakshuka, speaking, listening to what he went by means of.”
Anat added that Matan needed to be a soldier a lot that he even “hid from the military that he had bronchial asthma.”
Matan’s father, Haggai, claimed on Radio 103FM on Tuesday that if the details about his son’s situation had been relayed, he probably would have been launched within the final trade.”
Early final month, the household launched new footage of Matan’s kidnapping to Gaza, which was filmed by a terrorist and seized by the IDF, exhibiting Matan being pulled out of the tank wherein he was thrown right into a crowd of dozens of terrorists who brutally lynched him.
In March, Hamas launched a propaganda video, giving an indication of lifetime of Angrest, who has been held in captivity in Gaza since October 7.
Walla! contributed to this report.
