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Startling footage shows ‘Beautiful Six’ hostage group marking Chanukah in Gaza tunnel

Alex Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Ori Danino can be seen commemorating the occasion months before their murder

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Soldiers carry the coffin of Noa Marciano at Modi'in Military Cemetery on November 17, 2023 (Picture: Getty)

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Hostage Noa Marciano was murdered by Gazan doctor, claims father after receiving harrowing video

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

Ran Gvili's is the final body being held in Gaza by Hamas

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Hostage families demand final body be returned to Israel before stage two of peace plan

By Nathan Jeffay

1 min read

Released Thai hostages arrive to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on November 30 2023 (Photo: Getty)

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Iran accused of blackmailing Thailand to order farm workers home in exchange for hostages

By Mark Wood

1 min read

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The last hostage in Gaza: Israel pushes for return of Ran Gvili

By Nathan Jeffay

1 min read

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

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

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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Slain hostage Dror Or returned to Israel after 780 days

Dror was remembered as ‘loved and wonderful’ and ‘an excellent friend’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

November 26, 2025 10:16

Dror Or (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

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

The parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin took part in the Rabbi Lord Sacks Conversation to mark the launch of the new Koren Sacks Humash

By Jane Prinsley

8 min read

November 25, 2025 13:31

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)

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

The group has not identified which hostage the remains belong to or when they will be returned

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

November 25, 2025 12:00

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

Hostage and Missing Families Forum to close Tel Aviv office

The advocacy group is heavily scaling back its operations as just three hostages remain in Gaza

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

November 24, 2025 13:43

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)

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

The president singled out IDF veteran Matan Angrest, who was held in Gaza for more than two years, for praise

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

November 21, 2025 10:56

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

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

3 min read

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’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

November 14, 2025 11:17

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Startling footage shows ‘Beautiful Six’ hostage group marking Chanukah in Gaza tunnel

Hostage Noa Marciano was murdered by Gazan doctor, claims father after receiving harrowing video

Hostage families demand final body be returned to Israel before stage two of peace plan

Iran accused of blackmailing Thailand to order farm workers home in exchange for hostages

The last hostage in Gaza: Israel pushes for return of Ran Gvili

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

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

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