Overview
- Nvidia engineer Avinatan Or was freed after roughly two years in Gaza and reunited with partner Noa Argamani, with the IDF sharing a photo of their meeting.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees that Or was handed to the Red Cross in Gaza and welcomed him home in a letter praising staff support for his family.
- Medical assessments and Israeli media reports say Or endured solitary confinement and lost an estimated 30–40% of his body weight during captivity.
- Among those released was Evyatar David, who had appeared in widely condemned footage looking emaciated; his father said captors later tried to feed him up before release.
- Families described harsh and varied conditions for other freed hostages, including time chained in tunnels, reports of torture, and in some cases limited interactions with captors.