{"id":50723,"date":"2025-07-11T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/matan-angrests-bag-recovered-by-idf-from-gaza\/11\/07\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:34:00","slug":"matan-angrests-bag-recovered-by-idf-from-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/matan-angrests-bag-recovered-by-idf-from-gaza\/11\/07\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Matan Angrest&#8217;s bag recovered by IDF from Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His mother, Anat, posted on X\/Twitter that &#8220;Matan&#8217;s bag was returned to me this week in a black plastic bag. How and when will Matan return?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Items belonging to Matan Angrest, understood to be one of the 20 living <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/hostage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hostages;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">hostages<\/a> still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, were recovered by the IDF on Friday, Angrest&#8217;s family confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His mother, Anat, posted on X\/Twitter that &#8220;Matan&#8217;s bag was returned to me this week in a black plastic bag. How and when will Matan return? Why do I have to keep receiving items that testify to his condition and not Matan himself?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;They told me they found Matan&#8217;s bag, and it would take two more days for it to reach me. I didn&#8217;t understand what it was about. Then this bag arrived, with Matan&#8217;s name in my handwriting,&#8221; she told Ynet. The bag was Matan&#8217;s since his childhood.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Matan Angrest&#8217;s abduction to Gaza<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He was seriously injured in a tank on the morning of October 7, evacuated unconscious to Gaza after immense abuse,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Since then, he has been undergoing interrogations, asthma attacks, severe burns, and his wounds are becoming infected by the humidity of the tunnels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;When Edan Alexander was released, we realized that we can talk about the soldiers. We must conduct tough negotiations and insist on Matan&#8217;s release because of his condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>A screenshot from the Hamas propaganda video showing Gaza hostage Matan Angrest, published on March 7, 2025 (credit: SCREENSHOT\/X\/VIA SECTION 27A OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anat also mentioned to Ynet that she hasn&#8217;t cooked since her son was taken hostage. &#8220;When Matan returns, I will go back to cooking. Steaks, shakshuka, everything he loves. What I&#8217;m most looking forward to is sitting with him on Saturday morning, with the shakshuka, talking, hearing what he went through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anat added that Matan wanted to be a soldier so much that he even &#8220;hid from the army that he had asthma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matan&#8217;s father, Haggai, claimed on Radio 103FM on Tuesday that if the information about his son&#8217;s condition had been relayed, he likely would have been released in the last exchange.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Early last month, the family released new footage of Matan&#8217;s kidnapping to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/gaza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gaza;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Gaza<\/a>, which was filmed by a terrorist and seized by the IDF, showing Matan being pulled out of the tank in which he was thrown into a crowd of dozens of terrorists who brutally lynched him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In March, Hamas released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-845145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:propaganda video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">propaganda video<\/a>, giving a sign of life of Angrest, who has been held in captivity in Gaza since October 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Walla! contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/matan-angrests-bag-recovered-idf-011757584.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His mother, Anat, posted on X\/Twitter that &ldquo;Matan&rsquo;s bag was returned to me this week in a black plastic bag. 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