Tag: Hostages
White House admits Israel not to blame for aid failing to reach Gazans
After demanding for months that Jerusalem let more supplies enter the Gaza Strip, with Israel insisting that the bottlenecks are on the Gaza side, the U.S. appeared to come around to Israel’s position on...
En route to the Tour: Oct. 7 survivors join Israeli cycling team in Florence
Two survivors of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre took off in a private jet from Tel Aviv for Italy on Wednesday to meet up with the Israeli team competing in the world’s most prestigious cycling...
Freed hostage Shlomi Ziv returns to Lebanon border home
Shlomi Ziv returned to his home in the northern border community of Moshav Elkosh on Tuesday, some three weeks after being rescued from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip.
The former captive was welcomed by Shimon Guetta, the...
Video shows Hamas terrorists taking hostages at Nova festival on Oct. 7
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum on Monday evening released a video of Hamas terrorists abducting three Israeli men, including a dual U.S. citizen, from a bomb shelter near the Supernova music festival on...
How Hamas keeps hostages in the heart of Gaza
Abdel Rahman al-Jamal, a 63-year-old veteran member of the Gaza legislative council, is deeply entrenched in Hamas’s apparatus and has played a central role in the recent hostage crisis.
In his book “Lexicon of the...
US drones still flying over Gaza, aiding hostage rescue, Pentagon says
Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the U.S. Department of Defense press secretary, insisted in a press conference on Monday that the temporary pier anchored to the coast of Gaza played no role whatsoever...
Gallant: Israel will only negotiate under fire
Israel’s talks with the Hamas terrorist organization will only be conducted under fire, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed on Wednesday, five days after U.S. President Joe Biden launched a proposed deal offering an immediate...
Four hostages died in Gaza captivity, remains held by Hamas
Four Israeli men, including a dual British citizen, who were taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 died in captivity in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said...
Hamas: No hostage talks unless Israel ends war
The Hamas terror organization reiterated on Thursday night that intends to end ongoing negotiations with Israel, which would see the hostages released in exchange for a ceasefire and release of terrorists in Israeli custody,...
WATCH: Seinfeld gets emotional talking about Israel trip
Visiting Israel after the Oct. 7 atrocities “was the most powerful experience of my life,” American Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld said in an interview with journalist Bari Weiss released on Tuesday.
The 70-year-old Brooklynite became...