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‘I choose life’: Ex hostage Alon Ohel reveals brutal treatment at the hands of Hamas captors

Alon, who almost lost sight in one of his eyes due to a shrapnel injury, recounted his experiences of starvation and sexual assault at the hands of terrorists

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Freed hostage Alon Ohel arrives home in Moshav Lavon, Israel, on October 24, 2025 (Flash90)

(L-R) Sudthisak Rinthalak and Ran Gvili (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

‘Small remains’ returned by Hamas not linked to either hostage still in Gaza

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Dror Or (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Slain hostage Dror Or returned to Israel after 780 days

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Jon and Rachel speak on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Centre on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin: ‘We pray for rampant, unreasonable, unwieldy hope’

By Jane Prinsley

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(L-R) Dror Or, Ran Gvili, and Sudthisak Rinthalak (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

PIJ confirms body of one of three remaining hostages has been located

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A door bearing posters of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, depicting the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip by Hamas (Getty Images)

Hostages and Missing Families Forum

Hostage and Missing Families Forum to close Tel Aviv office

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A group of former hostages and their families with US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff (White House)

‘Today you are heroes’: Trump holds White House reception for freed hostages

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Yaakov Lappin

By Yaakov Lappin

Hamas is looking at the 60,000 dead and the Western hatred of Israel and thinking: job done

With the terror group having survived the war, another meeting with the US in the bag and Israel-hate peaking in the West, Hamas sees the last two years as a success

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November 20, 2025 16:35

Hamas fighters secure an area before handing over an Israeli-America hostage to a Red Cross team in Gaza City on February 1, 2025 (Photo by SAEED JARAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Former hostage dug his way to freedom before being recaptured by Hamas

Avinatan Or recounted the moment when his tunnel hit the root of a tree, which he said ‘felt like touching life in a place of death’

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November 18, 2025 15:30

Avinatan Or, a former hostage freed from captivity in Gaza, attends a homecoming celebration on October 21, 2025 in Shilo, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank (Getty Images)

‘Around half’ of hostages were sexually abused in captivity

Former captives reported instances of sexual coercion, gang rape and humiliation

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November 17, 2025 10:05

A man fixes a sticker reading 'home' on a poster showing one of the recently released hostages on October 14, 2025 (Getty Images)

Hamas and PIJ return body of Meny Godard

The former pro footballer and Kibbutz Be’ri resident was murdered on October 7 – just three hostages remain following his return

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November 14, 2025 11:17

Meny Godard (Courtesy)

Maccabi-loving former hostages Gali and Ziv Berman attend first football match since their return to Israel

Standing on the pitch at Bloomfield Stadium, the twins thanked Maccabi supporters for ‘fighting’ for them during their time in captivity

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November 11, 2025 11:34

Former hostages Gali and Ziv Berman at the Israeli Premier League match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv (Photo: Flash90)

Body of fallen soldier Hadar Goldin returned to Israel after 11 years

Goldin was killed in Gaza in 2014 and his body has been held hostage by Hamas ever since

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November 10, 2025 10:30

Simcha and Lea Goldin, parents of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, hold a press conference outside their home in Kfar Saba on November 9, 2025 (Flash90)

The sacred duty of bringing a body home

There is a longstanding biblical tradition of retrieving the body of a fallen soldier

By Rabbi Gideon Sylvester

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November 9, 2025 11:29

An IDF guard of honour stands watch over the bodies of hostages recently returned from Gaza (photo: IDF)

Hamas ‘to return body of Hadar Goldin’

The planned release comes over a decade after the soldier was killed in the 2014 Gaza war

By Ariel Kahana

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November 9, 2025 10:44

Chemi Goldin, brother of Lt. Hadar Goldin (pictured above him) during an event at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2025 (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Body of Tanzanian kibbutz worker Joshua Mollel released by Hamas

The 21-year-old agricultural intern had arrived in Israel just 19 days before the October 7 attacks

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November 6, 2025 10:43

Joshua Mollel (Courtesy)

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