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Names of six alive hostages to be freed this week confirmed by families

The announcement seemingly reveals the fate of a further eight hostages, including the Bibas children.

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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Freed hostages reunite with families in Israel

By JC Reporter

4 min read

Emily Damari, right, and her mother Mandy embrace near kibbutz Reim, after Emily's release from Hamas captivity last month (Israeli Army via AP)

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Did Jacob cry when he saw Joseph again?

By Rabbi Gideon Sylvester

3 min read

Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen, Israeli-Argentinian Yair Horn and Israeli-Russian Sasha Trupanov are presented by Hamas and terrorists from Islamic Jihad (Getty)

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Hamas and Islamic Jihad release three more male hostages from Gaza

By Joshua Marks

1 min read

Owen Jones has accused an Israeli BBC journalist of sharing content from “extreme accounts" and posting only about Israeli suffering (Photo: Getty)

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BBC staffers round on ‘delusional’ Owen Jones after he targets another Jewish colleague

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

(L-R) Sagui Dekel-Chen, Alexandre Troufanov and Yair Horn

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Hamas and PIJ confirm names of three hostages to be released Saturday

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

The mothers of freed surveillance soldiers Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Liri Albag and Karina Ariev have claimed thier daughters were subjected to intense psychological abuse by Hamas (Image: Channel 12)

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Hamas ‘forced female hostages to watch male captives being tortured’

By Ellie Grant

1 min read

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Community rallies at central London vigil for hostages

Jews and non-Jews came together to raise awareness of the plight of the Israeli captives

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

February 13, 2025 13:31

Londoners gathered to show their support for the Israeli hostages and plea for their return at the weekly Board of Deputies vigil opposite Downing Street on Wednesday

Hamas ‘confirms’ next hostage release for Saturday

Reports suggest that the terror group has U-turned on its decision to delay all releases indefinitely

By JC Reporter

1 min read

February 13, 2025 10:45

Hamas has reportedly confirmed the next round of hostage releases for Saturday (Image: Getty)

By Tanya Gold

Hostage-Shoah comparisons are wrong, but they contain some truth

There are very good reasons why the sight of emaciated hostages prompted analogies with the Holocaust

3 min read

February 11, 2025 14:33

Hamas fighters escort Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi on a stage before handing him over to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on February 8, 2025. (Getty Images)

‘We share an umbilical cord’ – hostage mother shares her agony after son’s ‘torture’ revealed

Idit Ohel learned on Monday that her son was being starved and chained in an underground tunnel with multiple untreated wounds

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

February 11, 2025 10:17

Alon Ohel is reportedly enduring torture while in captivity, facing near starvation and being chained with untreated wounds, according to freed hostages. (Getty Images)

Hostage Shlomo Mansour confirmed dead

Mansour survived the 1941 Farhud massacre before emigrating to Israel with his family

By Ellie Grant

1 min read

February 11, 2025 09:24

Iraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 86, was taken from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager

Israel prepares for the worst as Hamas hostage cancellation leaves fate of Bibas family uncertain

The fate of Hamas’ youngest hostages, Ariel, 5, and Kfir, 2, remains in limbo as the ceasefire deal rolls on

By Imogen Garfinkel

3 min read

February 10, 2025 17:15

Shiri Bibas (center) and her sons Ariel, 4, (left) and baby Kfir, who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

The KC speaking up for British hostage families: ‘It’s been quite a rollercoaster’

Barrister Adam Wagner and solicitor Adam Rose feel their work is ‘very personal’

By Elisa Bray

7 min read

February 10, 2025 17:11

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy meet with the families of hostages and the bereaved at a commemoration event at 10 Downing Street in September 2024 (Picture: Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street)

Hamas cancels all hostage releases until further notice

The terror group blamed Israel for violating the terms of the agreement

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

February 10, 2025 16:27

Ohad Ben Ami being released by Hamas on Saturday, February 8

Hostages were choked, hung from the ceiling and starved by Hamas, freed captives claim

Ohad Ben-Ami, Or Levy and Eli Sharabi were visibly malnourished when they were returned to Israel over the weekend, with one claiming to have been shackled for so long that he forgot how to walk

By Imogen Garfinkel

3 min read

February 10, 2025 15:17

Eli Sharabi, whose wife and two daughters were killed on October 7, reunited with his mother, Hanna, and his sister, Osnat, on Saturday. (Credit: IDF Spokespersons' Unit)

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hostages

Names of six alive hostages to be freed this week confirmed by families

Freed hostages reunite with families in Israel

Did Jacob cry when he saw Joseph again?

Hamas and Islamic Jihad release three more male hostages from Gaza

BBC staffers round on ‘delusional’ Owen Jones after he targets another Jewish colleague

Hamas and PIJ confirm names of three hostages to be released Saturday

Hamas ‘forced female hostages to watch male captives being tortured’

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