Tag: Hostages
CIA chief heading to Doha to advance Gaza ceasefire
CIA Director Bill Burns is set to meet with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha on Wednesday to bridge the remaining gaps in Gaza ceasefire talks.
A source familiar...
Katz: ‘We are the closest to a hostage deal since the last one’
"We are the closest to a hostage deal since the last one," Defense Minister Israel Katz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.
One-hundred-and-five captives—81 Israelis and 24 foreign nationals—were released during...
Sullivan meets with Netanyahu in Jerusalem
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday amid a last-ditch effort by the Biden administration to forge a hostages-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists deal between Jerusalem and Hamas.
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Hamas hands hostage list to Egypt
The Hamas terrorist group in Gaza has given Egyptian authorities a list of hostages it is holding as interlocuters continue to push for a ceasefire agreement, the Saudi-based Al-Arabiya channel reported on Tuesday.
The list included names...
‘Another nail in UNRWA’s coffin’: Hostage family sues agency
The family of Yonatan Samerano, whose body has been held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, have filed a landmark lawsuit against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...
Doha dives back in as Trump seeks ceasefire before Jan. 20
Doha is no longer sitting on the sidelines of the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, after suspending its involvement on Nov. 9, citing a lack of "good faith" on the interested parties' part.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's...
Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed
We don’t know yet what impact President-elect Donald Trump’s bombshell statement about the fate of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas will be. But in one post on his Truth Social site, he neatly summarized...
Trump taps Abraham Accords negotiator as envoy for hostage affairs
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced his selection of Adam Boehler to be the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs in the incoming administration.
Boehler previously led negotiations on the 2020 Abraham Accords, the agreement that...
‘Always looked out for the little guy,’ friends say of Omer Neutra
Michelle Rich, director of teen travel and international engagement at United Synagogue Youth, laughs as she tells JNS about a memory she has of Omer Neutra, an Israeli-American 22-year-old, whose death on Oct. 7...
Freed hostages surprise young Oct. 7 survivor on her birthday
The sound of laughter echoed through the home of former Hamas hostage Emily Hand's home on Sunday as fellow Oct. 7 survivors and former hostages Noa Argamani and Hila Rotem Shoshani arrived bearing gifts, traditional Moroccan...