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Gaza hostages

Omer Wenkert’s favourite: Cloud cheesecake

Hostage Omer loves this recipe from Tel Aviv’s Sheine restaurant

By Sheine Restaurant

1 min read

Photo: Asaf Karela

Hamas propaganda footage of Daniela Gilboa has been shared by the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters, along with a message from Gilboa’s mother appealing to the Israeli government to finalise a hostage deal (Photo: Hostages Families Forum Headquarters)

New footage of teenage hostage released as mother pleads for government to approve hostage deal

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Eli Sharabi, who is missing in Gaza, with his wife and two daughters, who were killed on October 7

British relative of hostage calls on Labour Party for help

By Nicole Lampert

2 min read

Liora Argamani, mother of hostage Noa Argamani, at a meeting at the Knesset to lobby for the release of her daughter in January 2024. (Photo: Flash90)

Noa Argamani’s mother dies of cancer three weeks after her daughter was rescued

2 min read

Noa is free and spending time with her family (Photo: Screen grab X/Twitter)

Noa Argamani thanks IDF forces who rescued her from captivity

1 min read

Slain Israel Defense Forces Sgt. Maj. Mhamad El Atrash. Credit: Hostages and Missing Families Forum

Bedouin hostage confirmed killed on October 7

1 min read

Dual American-Israeli citizenHersh Goldberg-Polin was seized by Hamas fighters from a bomb shelter in which he was hiding (Photo: Getty Images)

Horrific new October 7 abduction footage released by hostage families

2 min read

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Israeli peace activist held hostage by Hamas says ‘I don't believe in peace now’

Ada Sagi has spoken for the first time about her 53 days in captivity at the hands of Hamas

By Rosa Doherty

3 min read

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June 19, 2024 11:25

Missing: Ada Sagi (Photo Noam Sagi)

United in our hope to bring home the hostages now

The rescue of four hostages has brought joy, but also a reminder of the immense human cost of being held captive

By Nivi Feldman

2 min read

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June 18, 2024 12:35

Nivi has been helping to organise weekly vigils in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, calling for the return of the hostages (Photo: Hostages and Missing Families Forum UK)

Hen Mazzig

Where is the Red Cross hiding?

The evidence shows that it is not the impartial humanitarian agency it claims to be

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June 18, 2024 10:39

IDF Lt. (reserves) Hen Mazzig on a field tour with the head of the ICRC representative in Jerusalem, 2010

Father of former JFS pupil killed on October 7 recalls his joy at hostage rescue

Jake Marlowe had been close friends with hostage Shlomi Ziv

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June 17, 2024 06:34

Former captive Shlomi Ziv in a first embrace with his sister, Revital Nasi (left), and cousin Liat Ariel. (Photo: The Hostage and Missing Families Forum)

Female hostages ‘held as slaves’

Mother of hostage Liri Albag has revealed what rescued hostage Noa Argamani told her about conditions in captivity

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June 16, 2024 09:06

Posters of some of the Israeli women kidnapped together on October 7 from the Nahal Oz base (Photo: Getty Images)

Beit Issie makes an impact in Israel – and in the UK

Singer Michal Greenlick dedicated her performance to her brother Shaul Greenlick, who was killed in Gaza

By Sandy Rashty

3 min read

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June 11, 2024 16:25

Michal Greenglick, whose performance was dedicated to the memory of her brother, Shauli Greenglick z''l, who was killed fighting in Gaza (Photo: Yoav Pichersky)

Anshel Pfeffer

By Anshel Pfeffer

The hostages’ miraculous rescue has led to security forces dilemma

Four lives have been saved, but the question of how to save more is far from settled

4 min read

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June 11, 2024 09:00

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at Hakirya base in Tel Aviv on October 26, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

Watch the dramatic rescue of three Israeli hostages from Gaza

The IDF and Israeli police worked on the operation that freed four people on Saturday

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June 11, 2024 08:06

Almog Meir as he is rescued by Israeli special forces

UN Security Council adopts resolution calling for Hamas to accept Israeli-backed ceasefire

Joe Biden and David Cameron welcomed the resolution, which was passed thanks to a Russian abstention

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June 10, 2024 21:29

UN Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters on June 10, 2024(Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

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