eighty Released, 136 Still Held Captive: Who Are The Remaining Hostages Held In Gaza Strip?

The Palestinian militants also freed 25 others outside the scope of the truce deal, most of them Thai farm workers, bringing to 105 the number of captives released during the pause in hostilities.

With five hostages having already been freed before the truce, a total of 110 captives have returned home alive — 33 children, 49 women and 28 men — out of an initial group of around 240.As Israel resumes its offensive in Gaza, we look at who is still believed to be in captivity.

The Israeli army said Friday that five more hostages had died, bringing the total number to seven, and 136 were still being held.The government said 125 Israelis, eight Thais, one Nepali, one Tanzanian and a French-Mexican identified as Orion Hernandez-Radoux, 32, by his family.

AFP has managed to identify 110 of the remaining hostages, mainly through interviews with their relatives or Israeli media reports.It is far from certain that all are alive.Hamas claims the youngest hostage, 10-month-old Kfir Bibas, was killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza along with his mother Shiri Bibas, 32, and four-year-old brother Ariel.

Israel has yet to confirm the fate of the family, which has come to symbolise the brutality of the hostage-taking.The Israeli government on Friday confirmed the deaths of two hostages: Noa Marciano, a 19-year-old soldier, and Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old woman from Beeri kibbutz.