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Three IDF soldiers were lightly wounded overnight Sunday by mortar shells launched from Lebanon toward Israeli military posts in the Shtula area near the Israel-Lebanon border.
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It’s been many years since Fiona Wax and her twin sister, Aviva Siegel, both 62, have spent this much time in the same space, but that’s what Siegel needs right now as she readjusts to life after 51 days in captivity in Gaza.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Photos released Friday showed emotional reunions as hostages released from Gaza overnight after 55 days in captivity met family and loved ones.
The eight Israelis freed on Thursday from Hamas captivity received treatment at the Soroka and Sheba medical centers.
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A relative of hostages released by Hamas terrorists this week said that children were branded after they were kidnapped to prevent their escape, as other family members described abuse and neglect experienced by captives during their time in the Gaza Strip.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Israel Defense Forces on Friday struck a terror cell operating in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah resumed attacks on northern Israel.
Several rockets were fired from Lebanon at military posts along the border close to Rosh Hanikra and Maragaliot, according to the military.
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The Israel Defense Forces resumed combat operations in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning after Hamas broke a week-long ceasefire by firing rockets at the Jewish state.
The military said it was conducting a wave of airstrikes across the coastal enclave.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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