A 3-year-old who lost both her parents in Hamas' terror attacks could be among the US hostages to be released from Gaza

a 3-year-old who lost both her parents in hamas' terror attacks could be among the us hostages to be released from gaza

U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, right, holds a picture of kidnapped Israeli girl Abigail Mor Edan as she speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv, Sunday Oct. 22, 2023. Ohad Zwigenberg

  • A 3-year-old US girl kidnapped by Hamas militants could be freed in a cease-fire deal. 
  • Abigail Mor Edan’s parents were murdered in the October 7 Hamas attacks. 
  • Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal where 50 people abducted by Hamas could be freed. 

A three-year-old US-Israeli girl who was abducted by Hamas militants could be freed as part of a cease-fire deal, her aunt said.

Abigail Mor Edan was kidnapped on October 7 after her parents, Roy and Smadar Edan, died when Hamas militants attacked the Kfar Azza kibbutz.

“The one thing that we all hold on to is that hope now that Abigail comes home, she comes home by Friday,” the toddler’s aunt, Liz Hirsh Naftali, told CNN Tuesday night.

“Friday is her 4th birthday. We need to see Abigail come out and then we will be able to believe it.”

Naftali previously told NBC News that Edan was likely in her parent’s arms when they were shot, and she had crawled out “from under her father’s body… full of his blood” and gone to a neighbor’s, where she was kidnapped.

Her siblings, aged six and 10, witnessed their parents’ murder and managed to escape by hiding in a closet for 14 hours.

Naftali told CNN she hopes the young girl is “with the mother that was taking care of her at the time with her own three kids.”

“And I hope that Abigail is being taken care of and left [alone] and that the deal will follow through and these hostages will be back home with their families in the next couple of days.”

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that would see Hamas free 50 women and children in exchange for a cease-fire and the release of Palestinian women and children prisoners.

Edan is among the three US hostages expected to be freed in the deal, US officials have said.

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