An Israeli man held hostage in Gaza since the October 7 Hamas attack has been confirmed dead, the government said early Friday. Dror Or, 49, was killed and his body was held in Gaza since October 7, said the Be’eri kibbutz where he had lived. It was one of the communities hardest hit in the … Read more
The US has accused Hamas of stalling a prisoner exchange deal with Israel in the hope of provoking a regional war, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered a war of words with his own negotiators. One former Israeli negotiatior said the country did not have any proposals and that there was “no real negotiation going … Read more
Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his bestselling 1993 memoir Den of Lions, … Read more
It’s the last wish of a dying mother, to be with her daughter once more. But six months into Israel’s war against Hamas, time is running out for Liora Argamani, who hopes to stay alive long enough to see her kidnapped daughter come home. “I want to see her one more time. Talk to her one more time,” said Argamani, 61, … Read more
A released Israeli hostage recounted sexual assault at gunpoint by one of the Palestinian militants who held her captive in Gaza, in a first such personal account published on Tuesday in an interview with The New York Times newspaper. Amit Soussana, 40, was taken hostage on October 7 from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Security camera footage … Read more
Michael Levy is on a mission that has brought him to Toronto from Israel to share his brother’s story in hopes of raising awareness about the hostages still being held and to call for them to be released immediately. “My little brother had to watch his wife being murdered in front of his eyes before … Read more
The husband of a German-Israeli dual national released from captivity by hostage-takers in the Gaza Strip has expressed his happiness at the return of his wife and their two young daughters. However, he would not celebrate until all the kidnapped people had returned home, he said in a video message in Hebrew posted to Facebook … Read more
