IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Netanyahu blames Hamas for civilian deaths in Israeli airstrikes 01:05 ‘There was no warning’: Families in Gaza mourn loved ones killed in Israeli airstrikes 00:59 Now Playing Hostage relatives’ message to Israeli government: ‘We must return to a ceasefire’ 01:17 … Read more
Hamas said Friday that it has agreed to release Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexanderthe last living U.S. citizen in the militant group’s captivity, as well as the bodies of four more deceased dual-national captives. Further details of whether Hamas’ agreement to release Alexander, now 21, were conditional and when he would be freed were not immediately … Read more
A man who took hostages in a Pennsylvania hospital during a shooting that killed a police officer and wounded five other people highlights the rising violence against U.S. healthcare workers and the challenge of protecting them. Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz, 49, carried a pistol and zip ties into the intensive care unit at UPMC Memorial Hospital in … Read more
Human remains returned by Hamas to Israel on Friday are those of hostage Shiri Bibas, her family said Saturday, two days after the Palestinian militant group returned the wrong body. “Last night, our Shiri was returned home,” the Bibas family said in a statement Saturday local time through the Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters, … Read more
American-Israeli hostage Strong spent “the vast majority” of his almost 500 days in captivity not knowing that his family had survived Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack or that his wife had given birth to their third child while he was held in Gaza, his father told NBC News. The 36-year old was released from Hamas … Read more
