Israel and Hamas extended their truce into a seventh day at the last minute, with a deal that will see Hamas release eight hostages to Israel and the bodies of three hostages who died (or were murdered) in Hamas custody.
The sixth and final group of hostages — ten Israeli, four Thai — entered Israeli territory early Thursday morning as a truce expired between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Israeli children were kept as hostages in Gaza by a variety of civilians — including a teacher for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and a Palestinian doctor who isolated the Israeli child from his own children and denied him food.
A Thai hostage who was freed by Hamas has told Israel’s Channel 12 that the Jewish hostages who were held with him were beaten with electric cables, and that all hostages were denied adequate food.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that it is evaluating claims by Hamas that a mother, her child, and her infant are dead after being taken hostage from the Israeli community of Kfar Aza by Palestinian terrorists during the October 7 attack.
Negotiators in Doha, Qatar, over the release of further groups of Israeli hostages have divided them into groups and categories — like cattle, much as Nazis divided Jews into different groups at concentration camps and death camps in the Second World War.
Twelve hostages released by Hamas — nine Israeli womaen, one Israeli female teenager, and two male Thai workers — are safe in Israel after a harrowing transfer in which they were jeered by a crowd of Hamas terrorists and supporters as they left Gaza.
Hamas terrorists are evidently trying to improve their image, posing Tuesday for a photograph with a freed Israeli hostage girl who is seen holding a cute puppy.
Hamas released on Sunday four-year-old hostage Abigail Mor Edan, whose great aunt is a reported buyer of Hunter Biden’s artwork and a big donor to Democrats.
Hamas terrorists held an Israeli child hostage alone for 16 days, according to the child’s grandmother, commenting after his release Monday night.
A source within the Israeli government told Breitbart News on Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s pressure would lead to Hamas surviving the war intact, rather than allowing Israel to destroy Hamas or remove its military and governing capabilities.
The Oakland City Council adopted a resolution Monday night demanding a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — while rejecting amendments condemning Hamas for terrorism against civilians.
The daughter of a critically ill Israeli hostage who was freed and taken straight to the hospital is slamming the International Committee of the Red Cross, saying that the organization did nothing to help her mother during seven weeks in Hamas captivity.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told Israel’s ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, on Monday that there was no choice but to “kill those who insist on murdering civilians,” to educate Palestinian children not to hate, and to bring prosperity to Gaza.
The Palestinian Hamas terrorist group released the fourth group in a total of 50 hostages on Monday, number eleven women and children — all families whose fathers and husbands remain in Gaza as hostages.
The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is refusing to release an infant Israeli hostage, Kfir Bibas, who was nine months old at the time of his abduction, among the 50-70 hostages it is letting go as part of a four-to-six-day “pause” in the fighting.
The White House confirmed Monday that Israel had agreed to extend the four-day “pause” in fighting in Gaza for two days in exchange for a Hamas promise to release 20 additional Israeli hostages over that period.
The aunt of Roni Krivoi, 25, a Russian-Israeli who was one of the hostages released Sunday by Hamas terrorists, told an Israeli radio station Monday that he had escaped and hidden for four days in Gaza before being caught again by Palestinian civilians.
Unlike the innocent Israeli hostages held by Hamas, Palestinian prisoners released this week were convicted of attempted murder, and received education, medical treatment, and visits from the Red Cross while incarcerated for their crimes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited troops in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, taking advantage of a four-day pause in fighting to tour the front, encourage the soldiers, and to renew Israel’s commitment to destroying Hamas when the truce ends.
Palestinians in Gaza City slapped and taunted a Red Cross vehicle carrying Israeli hostages on Sunday evening, as armed Hamas terrorists looked on, according to Al Jazeera footage.
A Sky News interview with an Israeli spokesperson has gone viral online after one of its anchors faced widespread ridicule for questioning if Israel values Palestinian lives less based on the higher number of Palestinian security prisoners being released compared to hostages being freed by Hamas in Gaza.
The third group of Israeli hostages freed from Gaza on Sunday evening includes a four-year-old child whose parents were murdered by the Palestinian Hamas terrorists who attacked their community on October 7.
Family members of released Israeli hostages told reporters Sunday that the hostages had been forced to sleep on benches during their seven-week captivity; that they had to endure waits of up to two hours for the bathroom; and that they ate poorly.
A masked Hamas terrorist is heard on a propaganda video ordering Israeli hostages to “keep waving” as they are loaded onto a Red Cross van during Saturday’s second release.
Israel accused Hamas Sunday of blocking a convoy of humanitarian aid trucks destined for the northern Gaza Strip under a deal to release additional Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian terrorist group.
Thai farmworkers who were taken as hostages to Gaza and released Saturday evening were “distraught” to hear about what happened to the rest of their colleagues at Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas terror attack on October 7.
Hamas separated a mother and her daughter in the second release of hostages on Saturday, violating what Israel says was an agreement not to split families, and showing a degree of cruelty that undermines its effort at a more humanitarian façade.
Israel has reportedly released Palestinian terrorist Israa Jaabis as part of a deal that saw 39 female and teenage convicts released in exchange for 13 Israeli women and children hostages on Saturday.
The second group of Israeli hostages will be released Saturday evening, after the Palestinian terror group Hamas balked, Israel threatened to end its military pause before the agreed four-day period, and Egypt and Qatar intervened to resolve the crisis.
The Palestinian Hamas terrorist organization balked at the second release of Israeli hostages on Saturday, delaying the transfer for several hours while complaining about alleged Israeli violations of the terms of the agreement.
Images and video of the first reunions between the first group of Israeli hostages released on Friday and their families has been released by the Schneider Children’s Hospital near Tel Aviv.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) pushed back on claims that President Joe Biden played a critical role in negotiating the hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas by arguing
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) stated that President Joe Biden should put economic pressure on Hamas financier Iran to push for the Americans being held hostage by the terror group
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Senior Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Mark Regev commented on the first release of hostages held by Hamas and the fact that no Americans were included while twelve
Thirteen Israeli women and children taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 are crossing back into Israel after a transition through Egypt via the Red Cross on Friday evening local time. 12 Thai hostages and one Filipino hostage have also been freed.
Israel’s Army Radio announced Thursday morning, citing the foreign minister of Qatar, that a pause in the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas terror organization would start at 7 a.m. local time on Friday (midnight EST), and that the first group of hostages taken from Israel on October 7 would be returned at 4 p.m. local time (9 a.m. EST). The precise location of the release was not announced for security reasons.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) stated that the temporary pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas that was agreed to in exchange for Hamas releasing some of the hostages it’s holding “is a great
Israelis woke up Thursday expecting to see the first of fifty hostages released by Hamas under an agreement approved earlier this week. Instead, they learned the hostage release would not take place at 10 a.m. as promised, and might not happen before Friday.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk said that the White House supports “humanitarian pauses irrespective of a hostage deal” but President Joe Biden realized the only
