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A Thai foreign worker who was released from Hamas captivity in recent days has testified that Israeli hostages with whom he was held were beaten by their captors, including with cables.
According to a Channel 12 report Wednesday, the Thai national, who was not named, told the IDF about his experiences while in captivity and said that the…
A Hamas source said that 10 more Israeli hostages will be released from the Gaza Strip on Thursday evening, two of them also holding Russian citizenship, as part of one-day truce extension.
Previous statements by the sides had said eight hostages and three bodies will be returned today. It appeared that the two Russian citizens could be slated…
Hamas on Thursday afternoon released two Israeli women from captivity in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said.
They were handed over by Hamas to officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross and made their way to Israeli territory, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Three Israelis were killed and six other people were wounded on Thursday morning in a terror shooting on Weizman Boulevard at the entrance to Jerusalem.
Magen David Adom emergency medical personnel treated the victims before evacuating them to hospitals in the capital.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel plans to mark the 76th anniversary of the United Nations partition plan at the world body’s headquarters in New York on Wednesday, Ynet reported.
On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed Resolution 181 by a vote of 33 to 13 with 10 abstentions and one absentee, to partition British Mandatory Palestinian into Jewish and Arab…
Israeli troops killed two senior terror operatives in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp during an operation there on Wednesday, the Border Police, Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet announced in a joint statement.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Rami Davidian, a farmer from Moshav Patish, an Israeli farming community located about 10 miles from the Gaza Strip, saved scores of young partygoers during Hamas’s murderous assault on the northwestern Negev.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israeli government has received the list of 10 hostages to be released by Hamas on Wednesday.
Their return to Israel will mark the sixth daily hostage release since a ceasefire agreement with the terror group went into effect on Nov. 24. The hostages’ families have been notified.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Ofri Bibas, the aunt of the two youngest hostages still held in Gaza, said Tuesday that she wants to believe that the delay in releasing her family during the lull in fighting is part of Hamas’s psychological warfare.
Read more: The Times of Israel
It has become something of a daily ritual.
On each of the days of the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that started Friday, as the Palestinian terror group released a small daily group of hostages — among the total of some 240 it kidnapped during its murderous onslaught on October 7 — it has also issued propaganda footage of the…
A fifth group of Israeli hostages was set to be released by Palestinian terror group Hamas on Tuesday after 53 days in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
An initial four-day ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas that had been due to expire has been extended by two days, with two more batches of hostages — estimated to consist of 10 abductees each —…
Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in violation of the ceasefire agreement with Israel.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The USS Mason and allied ships have recovered the Israel-linked Central Park tanker, which an “unknown entity” hijacked in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on Monday.
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The Israel Police opened an investigation into one of the Palestinian terrorists released from prison as part of the hostage deal with Hamas, Israeli lawmaker Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism) said on Monday.
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Soldier Ori Megidish, who was rescued last month by Israeli troops from Gaza after being abducted by terrorists on October 7, released her first public message since being rescued, hoping all hostages will return and saying she’s “happy I got my life back.”
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the ceasefire-for-hostages agreement by two days, a spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced on Monday evening.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
CUFI offered it’s first event in Springfield MA at Shalom Nepali Church. The Sunday message was shared with host Pastor Razu Ramdan who translated into Nepali. The audience of twenty were engaged with the message and several stayed after service for a time Q and A.
First Lady Michal Herzog denounced international human rights organizations for not speaking out against the multiple rapes and other violence perpetrated by Hamas terrorists against Israeli women during their October 7 onslaught, saying the silence is “devastating” and a failure for women everywhere.
Read more: The Times of Israel