her 84-year-old mother ditza heiman was held hostage in gaza and was freed on november 28. he had been kidnapped on october 7 from her home on the kibbutz nir ohz near the border with gaza. neta heiman is joining us from haifa. she is a member of the israeli chapter of women wage peace. welcome to democracy now! i'm so sorry under the circumstances. can you talk about what you're demanding? >> we are demanding to release all the hostages. we are demanding from the israel i government to put a deal on the table. do not wait. we need the israeli government to put a deal that will -- release a lot of palestinian prisoners. we will need lots of days to stop the fire. people taken on october 7, the price is for them. they deserve this price because the country left them behind. it has been 67 days i think since october 7, and they are still there. i am hopeful. 85th birthday, 85-year-old man they are keeping hostage in gaza without medication, without enough food. who can survive this? a make out been some discussion of israel flooding the tunnels with saltwater. can you respond

in that spirt, on tuesday, 84—year—old ditza heiman, one of the founders of kibbutz nir oz in israeleased. she is a former social worker and also the widow of a holocaust survivor who came to the uk on the kindertransport. sisters dafna and ela el—yakim were freed on sunday after being taken from their father's home, also on kibbutz nir oz. their mother shared this photo of their reunion, writing, "my precious daughters were returned to me yesterday, a moment etched forever in my memory." emily hand, who turned nine while in captivity, was released last saturday. her father told cnn that she is pale, has lost weight and now whispers because she was �*conditioned not to make any noise.�* and siblings 16—year—old aisha and 18—year—old bilal zyadna were among the six hostages released on thursday after 55 days in captivity. their father and older brother are still being held by hamas. now, for many the return home does not mean a return to normal. many hostages carry not just the psychical scars if their time in captivity, but the pychological ones, too. yesterday, my colleague caitrion