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Noa Argamani to make history as first freed hostage to address the UN Security Council

Israel rescued Argamani from a private home in Gaza last year

By JC Reporter

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Noa Argamani to make history as first freed hostage to address the UN Security Council

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Family of hostages forced to watch release ceremony share their heartbreak

By Amelie Botbol

4 min read

The UK Foreign Office has called on Hamas to immediately return Shiri Bibas to Israel (Image: Flash90)

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Thousands expected to pay respects to Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas along funeral procession route

By JC Reporter

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Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir and Ariel (Picture: Flash90)

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Bibas family to hold private funeral for slain hostages Shiri, Ariel and Kfir

By Ellie Grant

3 min read

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Hostages starved, chained and kept in darkness say families

By Ellie Grant

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Omer Shem Tov is reunited with his parents (Photo: IDF)

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Hostages Omer Shem Tov, Eliya Cohen and Omer Wenkert released in Gaza

By JC Reporter

3 min read

TOPSHOT - Newly released Israeli hostage Tal Shoham waves to supporters after arriving at Beilinson Hospital in the Rabin Medical Centre in Petah Tikva in central Israel on February 22, 2025. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Avera Mengistu and Tal Shoham freed from Hamas, back in Israel

By JC Reporter

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BBC accused of ‘whitewashing’ Hamas propaganda following Bibas body release

An insider told the JC that the corporation’s reporting raises ‘serious questions’ that need to be addressed.

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

February 21, 2025 18:31

BBC correspondent Paul Adams has been criticised for his social media posts and a recent report on the release of slain Israeli hostages (Photo: BBC)

Exclusive: Foreign Office demands return of Shiri Bibas to Israel following ‘abhorrent’ fake handover

Shiri’s two sons, Ariel and Kfir, have been identified among the dead, with Israeli officials saying they were murdered by Hamas terrorists using their ‘bare hands’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

February 21, 2025 17:24

‘The terrorist who murdered my family has been set free — but I back the Israel-Hamas deal’

Oran Almog was only 10 when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Haifa restaurant and killed his family

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

February 21, 2025 14:51

(From left) Oran, his father Moshik, and his little brother Tomer. Moshik, Tomer, Almog's cousin Assaf, and his grandparents Ze'evik and Ruthie were killed in a 2003 terrorist attack. (Courtesy of Oran Almog)

Kfir and Ariel Bibas were murdered by terrorists’ ‘bare hands’ and corpses mutilated by Hamas

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said that Yarden Bibas ‘wanted the world to know’ what happened to his sons

By Ellie Grant

1 min read

February 21, 2025 14:34

Poster bearing the portraits of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas (C) and her two children Ariel (L) and Kfir (R) (Picture: Getty)

Who are the six Israeli hostages set to be released on Saturday?

Two of the six hostages have been in Hamas captivity for a decade

By Ellie Grant

4 min read

February 21, 2025 08:50

By Rosa Doherty

If the bodies of babies can’t make the world care about Jewish lives, nothing can

It is not the silence itself that is earth-shattering. It is the decision to be silent about this, but not of other’s suffering.

3 min read

February 21, 2025 07:34

Kfir Bibas was just nine months old when he was abducted (Image: Getty)

IDF forensic analysis reveals body Hamas returned is not Shiri Bibas, and Kfir and Ariel were murdered in captivity

The Israeli government accused Hamas of ‘violating every basic moral value’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

February 21, 2025 07:04

The nine-month-old was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz alongside his parents and brother during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks (Picture: Getty)

Hundreds mourn Bibas family in ‘funeral’ outside Parliament

The procession through central London ended in a memorial service

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

February 20, 2025 18:07

Hundreds mourn Bibas family in ‘funeral’ outside Parliament

By Nicole Lampert

So, world, what do you think of your ‘resistance fighters’ now?

The sick handover of a dead family in Gaza today should have caused global uproar

3 min read

February 20, 2025 17:06

Terrorists at the site of the handover of hostage bodies including those of the Bibas family (Photo by SAEED JARAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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hostages

Noa Argamani to make history as first freed hostage to address the UN Security Council

Family of hostages forced to watch release ceremony share their heartbreak

Thousands expected to pay respects to Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas along funeral procession route

Bibas family to hold private funeral for slain hostages Shiri, Ariel and Kfir

Hostages starved, chained and kept in darkness say families

Hostages Omer Shem Tov, Eliya Cohen and Omer Wenkert released in Gaza

Avera Mengistu and Tal Shoham freed from Hamas, back in Israel

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BBC accused of ‘whitewashing’ Hamas propaganda following Bibas body release

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Who are the six Israeli hostages set to be released on Saturday?

If the bodies of babies can’t make the world care about Jewish lives, nothing can

IDF forensic analysis reveals body Hamas returned is not Shiri Bibas, and Kfir and Ariel were murdered in captivity

Hundreds mourn Bibas family in ‘funeral’ outside Parliament

So, world, what do you think of your ‘resistance fighters’ now?