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“I need the government to bring Tsachi back alive," said his wife Gali. "He was taken alive. He needs to be brought back alive.”
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Sharon Sharabi, the brother of Eli and Yossi, said he envisions the moment when Eli comes home, and he imagines “the moment when my 76-year-old mother gets Eli back, to hug him."
Hostages expected to be released in the first phase are those who fall under the humanitarian category, such as women, children, elderly or wounded.