... Oz. His mother, Hana, was also kidnapped. She was released in November during a truce. His father was killed in the attack. At least 36 hostages are confirmed to have died in captivity. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains under public pressure to get a deal to free the remaining hostages ...
... private letters, said Biden's national security adviser will meet Monday with family members of some of the estimated 100 hostages who are believed to still be in Gaza. The letters come as Biden has deployed CIA Director Bill Burns to Cairo for talks this weekend about the hostage crisis.
... was a Dutch citizen. Authorities also released no details about the four hostages. Verhulst said that after an emotionally charged morning, “everything is fine. The hostage-taker is arrested by the police and they are now speaking to him. And the hostages are free, they are very emotional.”Earlier, three ...
... hostages released in November. Shlomi Berger, the father of 19-year-old Agam Berger, said he last heard that she was alive in November. A hostage released during the cease-fire, Agam Goldstein-Almog, told him that his daughter — one of 19 women hostages, according to Israel — was alive and ...
HOW DOES THIS END? Netanyahu's government is under mounting pressure from families of the hostages, who fear time is running out, and the wider public, which views the return of captives as a sacred obligation. President Joe Biden, Israel’s most important ally, is at risk of losing re ...
The rest of the, we hope, 130-something hostages are being held very closely by Hamas in the tunnels. And so this idea that Israeli soldiers are going to go knocking on Sinwar's door and he will then turn over the hostages, it's fantasy. There's absolutely no ...
Aid convoys carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, Israeli officials said. The U.S., Egypt and Qatar have been working on a ceasefire deal that would release some of the hostages still held by Hamas.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he hopes a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that would pause hostilities and allow for remaining hostages to be released can take effect by early next week. Asked when he hoped such a deal could be finalized, Biden said ...
In our news wrap Wednesday, a top Israeli official offered new hope for a deal to free hostages in Gaza and pause fighting, Israeli lawmakers rejected international pressure for a declaration of a Palestinian state, Navalny's mother filed suit against prison officials who refused to release her son's remains and Russia's capture of a city...
... Hamas militants burst through Israel's formidable defenses on Oct. 7 and rampaged through several communities, killing some 1,200 people and taking another 250 hostage. More than 100 of the captives were freed during a cease-fire last year in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners. Around 130 captives remain ...
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