3 weeks ago - As part of the first phase of President Trump’s 20-Point Peace Plan, which stipulated that Hamas release all 48 hostages within 72 hours of the ceasefire, Hamas released the 20 surviving hostages on October 13.

8 hours ago - Hamas has freed 20 living hostages and returned the bodies of 27 dead hostages since October and some observers see the insistence on Gvili’s remains being returned as a delaying tactic to allow Israel’s military forces to remain in the ...

1 week ago - Nearby, signs and posters have ... Palestinian armed groups in the 7 October 2023 attacks, 168 have been brought back alive from Gaza, eight have been rescued....

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1 day ago - Covert Israeli forces on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line have reportedly detained a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative linked to the abduction of slain police officer Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage still being held ...

3 days ago - Gaza terror groups say they are not able to locate his body despite weeks of searches. Citing a need to “adjust to the new reality,” the Gvili family announced earlier in the month that, as the final hostage family, they had agreed with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum to end the mass rallies that the forum had held there on Saturday nights for the past two years.

4 weeks ago - JERUSALEM — Remains that militants in Gaza handed to Israel were those of Thai agricultural worker Sudthisak Rinthalak, Israeli and Thai officials said Thursday. The confirmation brought the first phase of Gaza’s tenuous 8-week-old ceasefire a step closer to completion, with one more hostage’s remains still to be returned.

Families and supporters rallied nationwide, calling for the return of St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili and vowing not to move forward until the final hostage is brought home.

2 weeks ago - Search efforts for body of last Israeli hostage in Gaza delayed due to bad weather A storm has battered the Gaza Strip, creating misery for displaced Palestinians and delaying the search for the body of the last Israeli hostage held by militants there.

October 7, 2025 - “The attackers brutally killed more than 1,250 Israelis and foreign nationals,” he reminded in a statement. “More than 250 others were abducted and taken into the Gaza Strip as hostages, including women, children and the elderly.

October 19, 2025 - Israel watched and rejoiced as the final 20 living hostages held by Hamas in Gaza were released and returned on October 13 to Israel, where they and their families could begin their journeys of healing and rehabilitation together.

October 27, 2025 - It has since returned 15 of them, along with releasing all 20 surviving hostages, of the 251 total who were abducted during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel that precipitated the war in Gaza.

1 month ago - "Two years have passed," she said. "We felt great sadness when we knew he was no longer among the living." Israeli President Isaac Herzog wrote on X: "For 789 painful days, Suthisak was held hostage in Gaza.

May 5, 2025 - Israel believes 24 hostages are still alive in the Strip — 22 Israelis, one Thai and one Nepali. All of them are young men who were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 ...

1 month ago - Under the first phase of a US-brokered ceasefire deal, which took effect on 10 October, Hamas agreed to return the final 20 living Israeli hostages and the bodies of the 28 dead Israeli and foreign hostages still in Gaza within 72 hours.

3 weeks ago - His body was taken to Gaza and held by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross stand next to a vehicle is parked next to rubble as Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants transport a white body bag believed to carry the remains of an Israeli hostage in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Dec.

September 1, 2024 - August 2024 hostage rescue operation: On August 27, 2024, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) successfully carried out a complex rescue operation in the southern Gaza Strip, freeing 52-year-old Farhan Al-Qadi, father of 11, a member of the Bedouin ...

2 days ago - The two civilians were released during the January 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, the body of one of the soldiers was recovered during a military operation a few hours before the ceasefire went into effect, and the body of the second soldier were ...

November 26, 2025 - Under the first phase of the US-brokered ceasefire deal, which took effect on 10 October, Hamas agreed to return the 20 living Israeli hostages and the bodies of the 28 dead Israeli and foreign hostages still in Gaza within 72 hours.

October 10, 2025 - The Israeli military says 20 living hostages and the bodies of 27 deceased hostages have been handed over by Hamas and have returned to Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal. Until 13 October, when the living hostages were released, 48 hostages ...