Hamas militants hand over Doron Steinbrecher, a hostage who had been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, January 19, 2025 (Photo: Screenshot/REUTERS)
In all the emotion of the moment, people may or may not have noticed that the three released hostages all had braided hairstyles. The more astute will have noticed that they aren’t the first to come out of captivity in braids.
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