Hamas hostages
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Hundreds of Palestinians began gathering in Wadi Gaza on Saturday hoping to cross back to their homes into the northern part of the Strip. The office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ has said that displaced Palestinians will not be allowed to return to northern Gaza until the civilian hostage Arbel Yehoud is released by…
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that two French-Israelis, Ofer Kalderon and Ohad Yahalomi, were on the list of 33 hostages set to be released in the first phase of the Gaza agreement. “We are working tirelessly to ensure that their families are reunited with them,” he added in the post on X. The first phase of…
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A senior Hamas official says Joe Biden’s comments about Benjamin Netanyahu point to acknowledgement by the US that the Israeli prime minister was undermining efforts to secure a ceasefire. Sami Abu Zuhri said any proposal for a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal would be received positively. But senior Israeli sources have told the Reuters news…
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Some hostages were killed during Israel’s rescue operation, the armed wing of Hamas has claimed. In a post on Telegram, al Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Ubaida said: “The enemy was able, by committing horrific massacres, to free some of its prisoners, but at the same time it killed some of them during the operation.” He…
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The son of a woman kidnapped by Hamas has described how the belief she is still alive is what gives him the energy to get through each day. Uri Rawitz’s elderly mother Elma was snatched by militants from her home in the Nahal Oz kibbutz on 7 October. “It’s a hard time… I’m worried about…
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