The family members of four Bedouin Arabs taken hostage on Oct. 7 during the assault on southern Israel by Hamas gunmen have welcomed the return of two of the captives but wait for news of the others as fighting resumes in the Gaza Strip.

Yosef Hamis Ziadna, his sons Hamza and Bilal and his daughter, Aisha, were working on the Holit farm on Israel's border with Gaza when they were seized by the gunmen along with more than 200 other Israelis and foreigners.

Aisha and Bilal were handed over during the seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas that ended on Friday morning but Yosef and Hamza are still being held, along with two other Bedouins, Farhan al-Qadi and Samer al-Talalqa.

"There were tough times, we always had hope," said their cousin Kamel al-Ziadna. "We want the release of Yousef and Hamza and all those held hostages, and Samer and Farhan, may God bring them back to their families".

Bedouin Arabs make up about 4% of Israel's population, living mainly in the southern Negev desert and in northern Israel.

Kamel said the families were urging Hamas to release their hostages. "They are Arab, Muslim youth," he said.

While they wait, like the families of other hostages released during the week-long pause, their emotions are mixed.

When the news came through that Aisha and Belal were to be released, there was a large gathering of family and friends that celebrated through the night.

"It was nice moments, but the happiness was missing something, so until the whole family is reunited with Hamza and Yousef, then we will hold a huge party, and we will gather with friends and family and all those who shared these difficult times with us," he said.

Israeli survivors of the Oct. 7 music festival attack seek to cope with trauma at a Cyprus retreat.

Tomer Bassis expected his day to be filled with electronic trance music at the Oct. 7 desert rave party he was attending in southern Israel. Instead, the sounds of bullets whizzing by as he ran to escape the indiscriminate gunfire of Hamas militants became the soundtrack seared into his mind.

The 25-year-old Israeli was among some 3,000 other young revelers at the music festival who fled the carnage as the militants from Gaza descended on the field, gunning down young men and women and throwing rocket-propelled grenades into the crowd in an unprecedented rampage.

The open-air Tribe of Nova music festival is believed to be the worst civilian massacre in Israeli history, with at least 364 dead. In a single day, Hamas and other Palestinian militants killed about 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians, and took around 240 people captive.

Bassis remembers that as he ran, a girl he didn't know was running next to him.

“I looked to the left and she got hit with the bullet in the head and fell down immediately,” he said. He kept on running, screaming, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry that I couldn’t help you.”

“And all the time bullets are whistling,” he said. “I see people falling.”

The traumas of that horror-filled day are what Bassis — along with some 50 other young survivors of the rave attack — has tried to come to terms with during a five-day retreat at Secret Forest, a site owned by Israel in the hills above Cyprus’ southwestern coastal resort town of Paphos.

Another survivor, Eyal Sirota, 24, said the program was aimed at giving him and others the “tools to deal with the pain and the stress” of what they experienced and witnessed.

Some of the coping tools they are taught include breathing techniques and discussions — “sharing everything with each other.” The daily sessions are complemented with yoga, meditation, reflexology, massage and acupuncture, Sirota said.

Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, who heads Cyprus’ small Jewish community, said Bassis and Sirota were part of the sixth group of around 50 survivors of the Oct. 7 attack brought to the retreat this week to undergo five days of rest, relaxation and therapy in Cyprus.

Raskin said Cyprus’ close proximity to Israel and cheap flight connections make it an ideal destination for such a retreat — a place of calm that can help those who survived the Hamas attack heal, at least a little.

The trips to Cyprus are supported by NovaHelp, a group of mental heath professionals who came together to help survivors of the rave party, said Raskin. Financial support is provided by other charities and private businesses, including major accounting firms and Jewish American groups.

Raskin has initiated another, similar project currently underway to bring parents who lost children during the Oct. 7 attack to undergo similar therapy in Cyprus.

Some 1,200 Israelis were killed during that single day of Hamas' onslaught. Israel responded with devastating airstrikes and a ground offensive into Gaza. The war has so far killed more than 13,300 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.

On their final day before heading back to Israel on Thursday, Bassis' group of survivors were treated at the Jewish Community Center in the coastal town of Larnaca to a meal of hummus, kosher meats and plenty of drink to the pounding rhythms of Israeli pop and trance music.

They all clapped and sang along to the music as they celebrated life.

But despite festive moments, the terror of that day still haunts Bassis.

He recounted trying to avoid a massive car jam as he ran, hundreds of vehicles chaotically trying to flee the shooting.

When he couldn't run, he tried to hide where he could — first under the stage that was used for the rave party, and finally, under an Israeli armored vehicle where he held a young wounded woman in his arms until help came.

It was there that later, Bassis said he sprang into action and helped with the evacuation of some of the wounded.

Six of his friends who were with him at the rave did not survive.

“I will keep dancing and I will keep partying for my friends," said Bassis. “I will dance for them, I will live for them. I will make my life the best for them.”

“I got my life as a gift back," he said. "I will not waste it.”

Wounded Israeli tattoo artist held hostage by Hamas was operated on by a vet in Gaza, her family says.

Israeli hostage Mia Schem was operated on in Gaza, her aunt has claimed.

Schem was released by Hamas on Thursday as part of a deal with Israel.

In a video after her release, Schem said that people were "very kind" to her during captivity.

The aunt of released Israeli hostage Mia Schem said that a vet performed surgery on her while Hamas held her in Gaza.

"Finally, she is with us," Vivian Hadar, Schem's aunt, told The Jerusalem Post. "She was traumatized. She is thin and weak. A vet operated on her hand. She did physical therapy for herself."

Schem was one of an estimated 240 people taken hostage by Hamas during the unprecedented October 7 terror attacks.

The 21-year-old was attending the Supernova music festival near the Gaza border when Hamas militants stormed it, killing hundreds of attendees and taking several captive, among them Schem, who was shot in the hand.

After Schem was taken hostage, Hamas released a video showing her lying down as a person off-camera wrapped bandages around her right arm.

The Israeli-French tattoo artist Schem was freed on Thursday with another woman, followed by six others later.

More than 100 hostages have been released in recent days, most as part of a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas.

In a video posted on social media during her release, Schem can be seen sitting in a van and talking about her time in captivity. It is unclear if she was still in Gaza and still a Hamas captive when the video was filmed.

"People very good, very kind to me," she said. "Food good, and the kindness and everything good."

As the hostages have returned home, conflicting information has begun to trickle out about their experiences being held in Gaza.

Hamas has said that it treated the hostages humanely in accordance with Islamic teachings.

Many of the hostages were filmed waving and shaking hands with their Hamas captors as they were released and handed over to the Red Cross.

However, there have also been accounts from the IDF and hostages' family members claiming that hostages were beaten and threatened.

The director of METIV: The Israel Psychotrauma Center, Danny Brom, said that some of the released hostages will need medical treatment, but others will not.