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Hamas releases 17 hostages in a second round of swaps after hours of delays
The exchange of captives between Israel and Hamas was delayed by hours on Saturday amid a tense sta…
Michelle Mark
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Hamas offered Israel 50 hostages for a 5-day cease-fire but the deal got rejected, reports say
Hamas proposed exchanging 50 Israeli hostages for a five-day cease-fire in Gaza, but Israel rejecte…
Joshua Zitser
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Israel drops leaflets on under-siege Palestinians asking for their help to find Israeli hostages, as Gaza death toll hits 25,000
Israel planes dropped leaflets asking Palestinian residents to help locate hostages taken by Hamas …
Alia Shoaib
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Israel's special forces hostage rescue was aided by US intelligence, report says
US intelligence helped Israeli special forces rescue four hostages held captive in Gaza for eight m…
Rebecca Rommen
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25 hostages, including a two-year-old, released by Hamas during four-day truce with Israel
The freed hostages include at least four children. In exchange, Israel released more than 30 Palest…
William Edwards,Joshua Zitser
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The hostages' families should have been jailed to shut them up, says former US citizen who was an Israeli spy
Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence analyst who was jailed for spying for Israel, has c…
Rebecca Rommen
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Israeli military knew how Hamas planned to take hostages weeks before October 7: report
Weeks before the October 7 attack, the IDF had detailed intel on Hamas' plans, Kan News reported, c…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Israel says it thought 3 hostages were threats and killed them, the latest friendly fire incident in Gaza
Israel Defense Forces said Friday that Israeli troops mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages …
Natalie Musumeci
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Israel and Hamas agree to hostage deal in a major diplomatic breakthrough
In a statement, Israel's government said it approved the outline of the first stage of an agreement…
Jake Epstein,Katherine Tangal…
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Israel will allow more aid into Gaza in exchange for medicine deliveries to hostages, Qatar says
Qatar and France announced they brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to deliver medicine to hos…
Hannah Getahun
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Hamas' armed wing says it is ready to free 70 Israeli hostages in return for a 5-day cease-fire
A spokesperson for al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, said the militant group has offered to fr…
Joshua Zitser
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Israelis are fed up. After a night of protests, the country is going on strike, demanding a Gaza deal.
Public outrage in Israel over Netanyahu's failure to secure a hostage deal and end the fighting in …
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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Here's how Israeli soldiers were trained to greet the child hostages released by Hamas on Friday
Hamas freed at least 4 child hostages Friday, including a two-year-old. Here's how Israeli soldiers…
William Edwards,Joshua Zitser
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IDF special forces raid to rescue Hamas hostages in Gaza fails, say Israel media reports
Two elite IDF soldiers were severely wounded in a failed hostage rescue operation to retrieve hosta…
Rebecca Rommen
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Israeli parents have been warned to take social media off of children's phones over fears of broadcasted hostage videos from Hamas
Dozens, including women, children, and seniors, are believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas fighte…
Natalie Musumeci
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Nearly 5,000 Thai workers have fled Israel since the Hamas terror attacks that killed 33 of them
The Thai government said that 18 of its citizens remain hostages of Hamas somewhere inside of the G…
Sam Fellman
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IDF recovers bodies of 6 hostages from Gaza tunnel, including a US citizen whose parents spoke at the DNC
In a statement, President Joe Biden said he was "devastated and outraged" by the news of Hersh Gold…
Rebecca Rommen
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A mediator who worked on a 2011 Israeli prisoner exchange says Hamas' hostage-taking is 'unprecedented': 'What do they even do with them now that they have them?'
Gershon Baskin, who helped secure the 2011 release of an Israeli soldier, called Hamas' hostage-tak…
Thibault Spirlet
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Why some 40 Israeli hostages may have gone missing in Gaza
About 40 Israeli hostages are missing, according to Qatar. The fog of war and rival militant groups…
Joshua Zitser
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Israeli military officials say Israel has a choice: Defeat Hamas or save the hostages
Some officials told NYT they don't think Israel's two goals — destroying Hamas and recovering…