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Hamas releases bodies of hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch

Their return brings the number of hostages left in Gaza down to 11

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Amiram Cooper (L) and Sahar Baruch (Image: Courtesy)

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Freed hostage Eli Sharabi adds emotion to the glamour at Tel Aviv Fashion Week

By Natasha Cowan

2 min read

Yosef Haim Ohana in an Israeli TV interview following his release from Gaza (Image: Channel 12)

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‘He was about to shoot me’: Freed hostage reveals how he prevented his own execution in Gaza tunnels

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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Hamas returns remains of deceased hostage already recovered by IDF two years ago

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Freed hostage Bar Kuperstein during an interview with Kan (Picture: Kan)

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‘It’s because of Ben Gvir’: Freed hostage claims Hamas abuse worsened thanks to actions of far-right minister

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

US Vice President JD Vance delivers a statement to the media at Israel's ceasefire coordination centre near Kiryat Gat on October 21, 2025 (Flash90)

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Hamas officials can reach 10 of the 13 remaining hostages, Israeli officials tell Vance

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Former hostage Eliya Cohen proposes to Nova survivor Ziv Abud (Picture: X/ Hen Mazzig)

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Former hostage Eliya Cohen and Nova survivor Ziv Abud get engaged

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

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‘Resilience is in the Jewish people’s DNA’: The man helping Israel’s freed hostages heal

The head of Israel’s Hostage Debrief Team met 168 hostages ‘who went through hell and came back’ yet, he says, ‘not one of them said they would rather have died’

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

October 22, 2025 14:02

Released hostage Gali Berman pictured during a homecoming celebration on October 19, 2025 in Beit Guvrin (Photo: Getty)

Israeli former hostage Ada Sagi marks heriny of Shoah survivors

Ada Sagi was abducted from her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and kept in Hamas captivity for 53 days, where she spent her 75th birthday

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

October 22, 2025 11:52

Ada Sagi on her birthday with HSC staff and members, including Ivor Perl (in blue on the right), October 20 (Credit: Jewish Care)

Hamas releases bodies of two Nir Oz hostages

Tamir Adar was killed on October 7, while Arie Zalmanowicz was murdered in captivity the next month

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

October 22, 2025 08:20

(L-R) Tamir Adar and Arie Zalmanowicz (Image: Courtesy)

Hamas returns body of kibbutz civil defence hero killed on October 7

Tal Haimi ‘fought like a lion’ to defend his community from terrorists, while his death meant he never met his infant son

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

October 21, 2025 09:09

By Moumen al-Natour

When Hamas turned its guns on us Gazans, the ‘pro-Palestinian’ chorus fell silent

Humanitarian concern is necessary, but without political honesty it becomes another ritual that sustains the cycle. The vision of the Strip governed by civilians rather than militants is not naïve; it is the minimum condition for recovery

3 min read

October 20, 2025 14:25

Eli Sharabi’s book, Hostage, hits number 10 in the UK bestseller list

The memoir recounts Sharabi’s 491 days in captivity in the hands of Hamas

By Elisa Bray

1 min read

October 20, 2025 12:55

Freed: Eli Sharabi (centre) with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the March of the Living at Auschwitz, in April

Body of ‘hero medic’ who died treating others on October 7 returned home to Israel

Ronan Engel’s shiva was held next to the Tel Aviv hospital where his daughter is still being treated after her release nearly two years ago

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

October 19, 2025 09:48

Ronan Engel with his family in happier times (Image: X/ Bring Them Home Now)

Hamas gives back body of beloved kibbutznik, 75, who was killed rescuing his horses

Eliyahu Margalit, nicknamed ‘Chuchill’ by the kibbutz, was killed in Nir Oz on October 7

By JC Reporter

2 min read

October 19, 2025 08:48

Eliyahu “Churchill” Margalit was murdered on Oct. 7, 2023. His body was retrieved from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 18, 2025, as part of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

Body of murdered hostage Bipin Joshi returning to Nepal next week

Hamas finally released his body on Tuesday after more than two years

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

October 17, 2025 11:18

Bipin Joshi (right) pictured with his family (Image: Courtesy)

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hostages

Hamas releases bodies of hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi adds emotion to the glamour at Tel Aviv Fashion Week

‘He was about to shoot me’: Freed hostage reveals how he prevented his own execution in Gaza tunnels

Hamas returns remains of deceased hostage already recovered by IDF two years ago

‘It’s because of Ben Gvir’: Freed hostage claims Hamas abuse worsened thanks to actions of far-right minister

Hamas officials can reach 10 of the 13 remaining hostages, Israeli officials tell Vance

Former hostage Eliya Cohen and Nova survivor Ziv Abud get engaged

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