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Freed British hostage Emily Damari says she was held in Unrwa facilities

British-Israeli hostage told Keir Starmer that she was kept in UN-funded location

By Jane Prinsley

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Released hostage Emily Damari and her mother Mandy spoke to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Friday morning (Photo: Emily Cohen)

Portraits of Bibas family, kidnapped by Hamas (Image: Getty)

Israel demand Hamas reveal status of Shiri Bibas and her two kids

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(L-R) Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas have been listed for release from Gaza tomorrow (Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Hamas names three hostages to be released tomorrow as Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas

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An Owen Jones YouTube video about 'Palestinian hostages' featured a picture of Palestinian knife attacker, Sara Abdullah, who stabbed an Israeli woman at a checkpoint in June 2023 (Photo: X)

Owen Jones dubs knife attacker who ‘hunted Jews at checkpoint’ as ‘hostage’

By Jane Prinsley

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Agam Berger reunites with fellow soldiers Naama Levy, Liri Albag, Karina Ariev and Daniella Gilboa after her release from Gaza (Image: X)

Agam Berger reunited with fellow soldiers and family following Gaza release

By Imogen Garfinkel

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Hostages handed over to the Red Cross today in a tense and chaotic scene in southern Gaza (Image: Sky News)

Outrage as hostages released through ‘baying mob’ in southern Gaza

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Israeli hostage Agam Berger waves as Hamas hand her over to the Red Cross (Image: Getty)

IDF soldier Agam Berger freed by Hamas after 482 days in Gaza captivity

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Who are the three Israeli and five Thai hostages set to be released today?

Agam Berger has already been freed this morning after 482 days in captivity

By Imogen Garfinkel

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January 30, 2025 10:54

Left to right: Arbel Yehoud, 29, Agam Berger, 19, and Gadi Moshe Mozes, 80, are the hostages set for release on January 30, 2025 (Courtesy)

Gadi Mozes named as third Israeli hostage to be freed tomorrow

The 80-year-old will be released alongside Arbel Yehoud and Agam Berger

By Imogen Garfinkel

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January 29, 2025 16:26

Left to right: Arbel Yehoud, 29, Agam Berger, 19, and Gadi Moshe Mozes, 80, are the hostages set for release on January 30, 2025 (Courtesy)

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By Jake Wallis Simons

The cruel theatre of Gaza shows how well Hamas understands psychology

While the West has ‘emotional empathy’, the jihadis have ‘cognitive empathy’. The results are deadly

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January 29, 2025 14:54

The cruel theatre of Gaza shows how well Hamas understands psychology

Freed hostage credits Liri Albag with saving her life during brutal Hamas captivity

Amit Soussana claimed that the terror group ‘chained her like an animal’ and were planning to execute her

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January 29, 2025 12:26

Former hostage Amit Soussana said she was sexually assaulted by Hamas during her Gaza captivity (Image: Getty)

Pro-Gaza MP advertises motion calling Palestinian prisoners ‘hostages and abductees’ on Holocaust Memorial Day

One Labour MP labelled the motion ‘shameful’ and ‘disgusting’ in comments to the JC

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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January 28, 2025 10:45

Pro-Gaza independent MP Ayoub Khan has been criticised for a 'shameful' motion that seems to equate the hostages held by Hamas with Palestinian prisoners, some of whom are convicted of terror offences (Image: Ayoub Khan/X)

‘We’re looking after each other’ through hostage trauma, says Rachel Riley on Orthodox community visit

The Countdown host said she’s thinking about the captives ‘every single day’

By Imogen Garfinkel

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January 28, 2025 10:43

Rachel Riley visited Ezra Umarpeh, a provider of patient support services for the ill and disabled, on her tour of the Charedi community in Stamford Hill (Photo: The JC)

Arbel Yehoud and Agam Berger among six hostages due for release this week

The deal will also see displaced Palestinians allowed to return to the northern Gaza Strip after a row sparked by Hamas breaching the unfolding ceasefire agreement

By Imogen Garfinkel

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January 27, 2025 12:04

Civilian Arbel Yehoud, left, and soldier Agam Berger will be released on Thursday alongside a third hostage

Hostage deal moved Trump to tears, says new US Middle East envoy Witkoff

Washington’s man in the Middle East said the agreement, which he helped broker, was the ‘most worthy thing’ he could do in his lifetime

By Akiva van Koningsveld

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January 27, 2025 11:01

Steve Witkoff, the US' new special envoy to the Middle East, revealed that the recent hostage releases moved President Trump to tears (Image: Getty)

‘Sometimes we had to cook for terrorists’: Released hostages open up about life in captivity

Some of the abducted women reportedly ‘met very senior Hamas people’

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January 26, 2025 12:29

Hamas fighters escort the female Israeli hostages to hand them over to a team from the Red Cross (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

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