Israeli officials first told Emily Hand's father that his daughter was killed by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attack. The Israelis later found evidence she was alive and she's now reunited with her father.

There are now a total of 85 hostages who have been released out of the roughly 240 hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas since Oct. 7 when the militant group unleashed a brutal attack on Israel that killed about 1,

Kfir Bibas has spent nearly a fifth of his life in Hamas captivity. The 10-month-old was abducted from his home in a southern Israeli kibbutz on Oct. 7, when Palestinian militants snatched about 240 people and dragged them to Gaza.

Their release came on the fourth day of a truce between Israel and Hamas, with Israeli hostages being swapped for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. Another mother and seven children make up the latest batch of freed hostages.

STORY: Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam from Kibbutz Be'eri, who were abducted by Hamas gunmen on October 7, fell into the arms of their husband and father Hen and son and brother Omer, who waited for them at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan.