[SunkenCiv]

Some of them probably are. Since the Assyrian idolatry after the depopulation event eventually lost out, it’s not surprising. That doesn’t mean they weren’t carried off, and the Assyrian records show that it was true. In addition, the ancestors of the Ashkenazi resettled north of the Black Sea didn’t memorialize Jerusalem, they memorialized Samaria.

[Verginius Rufus]

I would have thought that the inhabitants of Gezer would have been all old men, but William Dever thinks there were women and children there at the time of the Assyrian siege.

2 Kings 17 tells of the Assyrian king sending settlers to Samaria (but arranging for them to learn the religion of the God of that land) but the descendants of the ten tribes may have outnumbered the newcomers. At any rate the Samaritans have the Pentateuch and believe in the God of Abraham.