Hostages

An Israeli military vehicles drives near the border with Gaza, ahead of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, January 16, 2025. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Hamas set to release first hostages under Gaza ceasefire deal on Sunday, Israel says

The Israeli cabinet will meet on Friday to give final approval to the deal with Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza and a release of hostages

US President-elect Donald Trump. File Photo: Reuters
Hamas-Israel war

Trump warns 'hell to pay' if Gaza hostages not freed before his inauguration

The bodies of the three hostages, Corporal Nik Beizer, Sergeant Ron Sherman and French-Israeli Elia Toledano, were brought back to Israel in December. Photo: Collected
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli army says 'high probability' its air strike caused deaths of 3 Gaza hostages in November

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a state memorial ceremony for Zeev Jabotinsky, founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, August 4, 2024. Naama Grynbaum/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
World+Biz

Biden says Netanyahu not doing enough to secure hostage deal

From left to right: Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Ori Danino. Photo: Collected
Hamas-Israel war

Israel recovers bodies of 6 hostages in Gaza, including an Israeli-American

Israelis and hostage families watch a screening of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses Congress on a visit to the US, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, at the so-called "Hostages Square", in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 24, 2024. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli forces retrieve bodies of five hostages from Gaza, military says

Andrey Kozlov, a released hostage reacts, after the military said that Israeli forces have rescued four hostages alive from the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, in Ramat Gan, Israel June 8, 2024. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
Hamas-Israel war

Israel rescues four hostages in Gaza; Hamas says 210 Palestinians killed in Israeli assault

A woman holds an Israeli flag near the posters of hostages, killed during the deadly October 7 attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas or while being held hostage in Gaza, outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem May 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/ File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli army recovers bodies of three hostages in Gaza

Smoke billows after an explosion in northern Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, May 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen/ File photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli military says forces seized bodies of three hostages from Gaza

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian children inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 27, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/
Hamas-Israel war

Israel will enter Rafah with or without Gaza hostage deal, Netanyahu says

A person attends a protest as people call for the immediate release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel April 25, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Egyptian delegation in Israel for talks on Gaza hostages

FILE PHOTO: Israeli farmer Elad Katzir walks in his field near the border with the southern Gaza Strip, in Nir Oz, Israel January 11, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli troops recover slain Gaza hostage, Egypt to host new truce talks

Palestinians walk past destroyed houses, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip February 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

New Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages talks set for Cairo this weekend