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Hostage Negotiations

What awaits the three hostages due for release in today’s ceasefire deal?

Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari will be taken to private hospital suites and treated for what health ministry anticipates to be severe mental and physical complications

By Eliana Jordan

4 min read

What awaits the three hostages due for release in today’s ceasefire deal?

Foreign Secretary David Lammy (centre) with Emily Damari's mother Mandy (left) in Israel (Image: David Lammy).

Hostage Negotiations

Meeting with mother of last British hostage ‘important’ ahead of possible deal, Lammy tells MPs

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Mandy Damari criticised the UK government for failing to provide solutions for the the release of her daughter, Emily, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 (Getty)

Mother of British hostage accuses UK government of failing to secure release of daughter

By Imogen Garfinkel

3 min read

Football fans unite to call for the release of the last remaining British hostage

Football fans unite to call for the release of the last remaining British hostage

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Fans at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium released hundreds of yellow balloons to raise awareness about Emily Damari

Tottenham fans release balloons to demand release for Emily Damari and hostages

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Mandy Damari accused the UK government of delivering “A message to Hamas that they can kill Emily. Another nail in her coffin.” (Getty Images)

Mother of British hostage accuses Starmer of putting ‘another nail in Emily’s coffin’

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Emily Damari, 28, was kidnapped from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza during the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 (Image:Getty)

Mandy Damari calls for hostage deal to include British daughter Emily

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

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Mandy Damari calls for hostage deal to include British daughter Emily

Make sure the only remaining British hostage in Gaza is on the release list, says mother

By Jane Prinsley

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December 9, 2024 15:19

Emily Damari, 28, was kidnapped from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza during the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 (Image:Getty)

Mandy Damari named on Telegraph’s ‘women of the year’ list

Mandy Damari was absent from the BBC’s 2024 'Inspiring Women' list

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December 8, 2024 12:56

Mandy Damari, mother of British hostage Emily Damari named Telegraph 'women of the year' (Image: Getty)

Starmer raised Emily Damari’s plight with Emir of Qatar

Party leaders paid tribute to Mandy Damari’s campaign in Commons

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

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December 4, 2024 17:35

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Credit: House of Commons)

Nigel Farage meets Emily Damari’s mother and accuses government of ‘pandering’ to Hamas

Reform UK’s leader said the government had ‘written off’ Britain’s Jewish population

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

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December 4, 2024 14:40

Nigel Farage (right) with Emily Damari's mother Mandy (Image: Nigel Farage, X/Twitter)

Released hostage Amit Soussana says Trump’s words offer ‘hope’

A London audience heard details of her time in Hamas captivity which included being sexually assaulted, beaten, tortured and kept in chains

By Jane Prinsley

8 min read

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December 3, 2024 17:17

Amit Soussana who was held hostage by Hamas spoke to a London crowd on Monday and said Donald Trump's words offered 'hope' for the hostages still held in Gaza (Pictures in Kfar Aza, Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel rebukes UK government for failing to address October 7 in Gaza aid criticism

The UK, France and Germany urged Israel to act on ‘the unacceptable humanitarian situation in Gaza’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

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December 3, 2024 15:59

Foreign Secretary David Lammy speaks as the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the situation in the Middle East (photo: Getty Images)

UK call for ‘unconditional’ ceasefire without hostage release broke my heart, Emily Damari’s mother tells Starmer

Mandy Damari was given a standing ovation after her speech to Labour Friends of Israel’s annual lunch

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

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December 2, 2024 16:21

Emily Damari's mother Mandy addressing Labour Friends of Israel's annual lunch. Credit: Labour Friends of Israel.

Foreign Secretary raises Emily Damari’s plight at United Nations Security Council

Lammy also described Northern Gaza as a ‘nightmare’ and said there was impunity ‘for extremist settlers’ in the West Bank

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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November 19, 2024 11:34

Foreign Secretary David Lammy speaks as the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the situation in the Middle East (photo: Getty Images)

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

Emily Damari’s plight must be placed front and centre

The JC Leader, November 8, 2024

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November 7, 2024 10:03

A poster of Emily Damari is held aloft at an October 7 memorial event in Hyde Park on October 6, 2024 in London (Getty Images)

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