Who Are the Israeli Hostages Released by Hamas?

TEL AVIV—Israelis held their breath as three women hostages were released from the Gaza Strip, the first group to be freed as part of a fragile cease-fire agreement with Hamas that went into effect on Sunday. 

The three women—all civilians—were Romi Gonen, a 24-year-old waitress who was taken from the Nova music festival in southern Israel; Doron Steinbrecher, 31, a veterinary nurse and Israeli-Romanian citizen who was kidnapped from her home in kibbutz Kfar Aza; and Emily Tehila Damari, 28, a British-Israeli citizen who was also taken from her home in Kfar Aza.