Israel and Hamas finally exchanged hostages and detainees on Monday as part of a ceasefire brokered by the Trump administration last week.
Hamas has returned to Israel all 20 hostages, as well as four of the 28 hostages reportedly including Yossi Sharabi, Guy Illouz, Daniel Peretz and Bipin Joshi. However, the armed group has agreed to return all 28 bodies it seized. Israel, for its part, released 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and approximately 1,700 Gazans arrested after the October 7 attack.
One of the 28 hostages who died in Hamas captivity was Israeli graffiti artist and art student Inbar Haiman, known as “Pink”. The Art Newspaper the report said. She is the only woman still detained by Hamas. The 27-year-old was attacked by Hamas militants at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, and her family has asked the armed group to return her body.
In September, Heyman’s aunt, Hannah Cohen, told The New York Times times of israel “Her mother needed to go to the grave, talk to her daughter, light a candle when she needed it. The brain plays tricks on people when there is no closure; it sends a person to all kinds of places.”
Immediately after Hamas released some hostages on Monday, a statement was issued by the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, a volunteer-based civil society organization dedicated to the safe return of all Israeli citizens from Hamas captivity. “[Not releasing the bodies of the remaining deceased hostages] Hamas is in flagrant violation of the agreement,” the statement read. “We hope that the Israeli government and mediators will take immediate action to correct this horrific injustice. “
On Tuesday, Israel reportedly gave Hamas until the end of the day to return the remaining bodies. Mediators believe it will be difficult for the group to find all the remains, but it is understood bumpy Public broadcaster, the Israeli government believes that the organization is blocking some operations. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said failure to hand over the bodies would violate the ceasefire and “will have consequences.”
as Tan According to reports, Heyman will begin the final year of her visual communication degree at WIZO Haifa School of Design and Education. She wants to pursue a career in design. Yaron Shin, one of Hyman’s mentors and head of WIZO’s visual communication department, told us folder magazine commented in October 2023: “Her ability to create worlds ‘from her head’ reaches its peak in situations where she needs to invent, imagine and describe something completely amorphous.”
The visual communication major has earned a reputation as a graffiti artist. By the age of 15, she was “labeling” buildings with her nicknames “Pink Question” (eventually shortened to “Pink”) and “Pink Raven”. After her abduction, graffiti began appearing across Israel and sometimes further afield, including the message “Freedom Pink.”
