The three Israeli hostages slated for release by Hamas from Gaza on Saturday were named Friday as Ofer Calderon, 54, Keith Siegel, 65, and Yarden Bibas, 35, officials said.

Israeli officials said that the families have been notified and that Israel accepted the Hamas list.

Siegel, a US citizen originally from North Carolina, was taken captive with his wife Aviva from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. She was freed during a previous ceasefire in November 2023.

Calderon was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 with two of his children, who were both freed in the previous ceasefire.

Bibas, his wife Shiri, and children Ariel and Kfir were all taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz. Hamas has claimed that Shiri and the two boys were killed in captivity. While Israel has not officially confirmed their deaths, it has expressed “grave concern” for their fate. Yarden was wounded during his kidnapping.

So far, 10 Israeli hostages have been freed as part of the current deal, which mandates the release of 33 so-called “humanitarian hostages” during its first 42-day phase, with fighting stopped in the Strip. Five Thai hostages have also been freed.

As those hostages — women, children, elderly people and sick people — are gradually released, Israel is to release some 1,904 Palestinian security prisoners, including more than 100 serving life sentences for deadly terror attacks.

The three-phase deal’s later stages are subject to negotiations with the stated goal of reaching a “sustainable calm” in the enclave, alongside the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza, the release of more Palestinian security prisoners and an Israeli withdrawal from the Strip.

The hostages are among 251 Israelis and foreigners kidnapped on October 7, 2023, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst into Israel, killing some 1,200 people, amid rampant acts of brutality and overt targeting of civilians.

Siegel, 65, a US citizen originally from North Carolina, was taken captive with his wife, Aviva Siegel, 62, from their home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, when terrorists attacked their community, killing and abducting Israelis and burning kibbutz homes.

The couple was driven into Gaza in their own car, along with a neighbor and her two children.

Aviva Siegel was released in November 2023 as part of the temporary ceasefire deal, which was brokered by Qatar and the United States.

Within a week, Aviva Siegel was at a massive rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, holding up a placard with Keith’s picture.

Their daughter Shir Siegel who also lives on Kfar Aza, was away that weekend, and tried that morning to call her father, who didn’t answer his phone.

Her call to her mother’s phone was cut off, and they wrote on the family WhatsApp group that they couldn’t speak.

Keith Siegel is known as a quiet, kind man, dedicated to his wife, children and grandchildren. In April 2024, Hamas released a propaganda video showing Seigel alive alongside fellow hostage Omri Miran, 46.

In the edited three-minute-long video, Siegel and Miran identified themselves, spoke directly to their families, and said they are hoping for a hostage deal that would see them and other hostages returned home.

Calderon, 54, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 with two of his four children, Erez and Sahar, when Hamas terrorists stormed the kibbutz, killing over 100 residents and some 15 foreign agricultural workers, and taking about 80 hostages.

Calderon and his children initially escaped from their shelter through the window during the Hamas onslaught, into the fields of Kibbutz Nir Oz, where they were later taken hostage.

Sahar Calderon, 16, and Erez Calderon, 12, were released during the November 2023 ceasefire-hostage deal.

Hadas Calderon, Ofer’s ex-wife, was in the sealed room of her home on the kibbutz, holding the door handle against the terrorists. Their elder son, Rotem, 19, also survived in the safe room of his apartment, in the kibbutz area for young adults. His older sister Gaya, 21, was in Tel Aviv.

Grandmother Carmela Dan was at her house down the street with Hadas Calderon’s niece, Noya Dan. Their bodies were found on October 19, 2023.

Ofer marked his 53rd and 54th birthdays in captivity in Gaza.

Bibas, 35, was kidnapped separately from his wife and children, who were all taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz.

On the morning of October 7, Bibas continuously texted with his sister, Ofri, letting her know what was happening in Kibbutz Nir Oz, where he lived with Shiri, 32 and their two boys, Ariel, 4 and Kfir, then 9 months.

“At 6:30 a.m., he wrote about the rockets,” Ofri said in a Kan interview. Yarden wrote about the terrorists entering the kibbutz, and then he wrote, “‘Fuck,’” said Ofri.

He texted his sister that there was terrible fighting, and intense pressure to try and hold off the wave of Hamas terrorists who entered Nir Oz. The terrorists ended up committing a brutal massacre, in which some 180 of the kibbutz’s 400 residents were killed or abducted.

He told his sister that his little boys didn’t know how to keep quiet, and he told her it felt like the end.

Several hours later, the family saw a video circulating of Shiri, holding both boys in her arms, a look of terror on her face as she was surrounded by terrorists, her boys facing her chest, a blanket covering them. Yarden isn’t in any of the videos.

Neither are Shiri’s parents, Margit Silberman Shnaider and her husband Yosi Silberman, who also lived on Nir Oz and were presumed missing but whose bodies were eventually identified.

Later, the Bibas family found a video of Yarden, injured with blood around his head, surrounded by terrorists.

Ariel, now 5, and Kfir, who turned 2 earlier this month, are the only children left in Gaza, after the November 2023 deal that saw the release of more than 100 of the people seized in the attack.

On Wednesday, Israel demanded that Hamas clarify the condition of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir, Hebrew media reported.

IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said last week that there are “grave concerns” for their fate.

Relatives stated Monday that they are still holding onto hope that the Bibas family will return from captivity in Gaza, although Shiri and the boys should have been among the first seven civilian hostages, released in the last 10 days.

“We said then, and we say now: We hold on to hope and continue waiting for their return. We await clarity regarding their condition,” said the wider family in the statement.

Once Seigel, Calderon and Bibas are released on Saturday, 13 of the 33 first-phase hostages will have been returned to Israel, along with the five Thai hostages released by Hamas on Thursday separately from the deal between Israel and the terror group.

According to a list given by the Hamas terror group to Israel on Monday, eight of the 33 hostages that were slated to be released during the first phase of the ceasefire are dead, meaning that 12 of the remaining 20 first-phase hostages are alive.

Officials said that the Hamas document matched Israel’s existing information.

Whether hostages are alive or dead inside Gaza has been a heartbreaking question for waiting families who have pushed Israel’s government to reach a deal to free them, fearing that time was running out.

Seventy-nine of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the body of an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014. The body of another IDF soldier, also killed in 2014, was recovered from Gaza this month.

Israel is set to free 90 inmates on Saturday in exchange for the three Israeli hostages, “nine of whom are serving life sentences and 81 of whom have long sentences,” the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club spokeswoman Amani Sarahneh told AFP on Friday.