Gaza hostages

Sydney Sweeney meets with former Gaza hostages Noa Argamani, Avinatan Or

The actress posed for photos with the couple, who were abducted from the Nova Festival on October 7, 2023. The encounter, location, and exact timing of the meeting were not immediately disclosed.

Sydney Sweeney meets former Gaza hostages Noa Argamani, Avinatan Or,
 David Cunio

Hamas captors told David Cunio his wife had 'moved on,' ex-hostage tells N12

	Former hostage Eitan Mor attends a conference titled “Gaza: The Day After” at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2026.

Hamas 'will not give up until last Israeli is gone,' former hostage Eitan Mor says

Sivan with Itzik Gvili, Rani's father

Beyond the Headlines: Ran Gvili, Iran, and us - opinion


In coordination with Israel, Hamas renews search for final hostage Ran Gvili in Gaza

The search is occurring in Zeitoun, in northern Gaza. The neighborhood is split by the Yellow Line that divides the Strip between Hamas and Israel-controlled territories.

Palestinian Hamas terrorists secure the area as Egyptian workers accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) search for the remains of the last Israeli hostage in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 8, 2025.

Israeli protest leaders to join forces with Democrats in next election, Yair Golan announces

Golan confirmed that the new party members will be Moshe Radman, Moran Michel, Danny Elgarat, Hadas Ragolsky, Gaby Lasky, Ami Dror, Lee Hoffman, Kati Piasecki, Rotem Sivan, and Tomer Avital.

Yair Golan announced the new members of the Democrats Party.

Netanyahu: Rafah crossing to stay closed until final hostage Ran Gvili’s remains returned - KAN

"This is our duty," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said earlier. "Hamas can and must return Gvili to Israel."

A truck carrying humanitarian aid on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing, October 19, 2025; illustrative.

Holocaust survivors make, deliver Hanukkah care packages for 20 freed Gaza hostages

Each package included water bottles, teas, chapsticks, socks, a blanket, and a candle, along with handwritten notes of encouragement from Holocaust survivors, The Blue Line explained in a statement.

Holocaust survivors with The Blue Card gathered on Chanukah to deliver care packages to the Consulate General of Israel in New York for 20 hostages who were recently released from Hamas captivity in Gaza.

Katz instructs IDF to prepare to resume combat in Gaza as Hamas refuses to disarm

Defense Minister Israel Katz told the IDF to prepare for renewed fighting in Gaza as talks stall and Hamas refuses to disarm.

Defense Minister Israel Katz on a tour in the Gaza Strip, August 5, 2025.

'I'll carry this my entire life. You can't heal': Ex-hostage Romi Gonen discusses her trauma

Former Gaza hostage Romi Gonen delivers a raw account of isolation, sexual abuse, and survival in Hamas captivity, telling Channel 12’s Uvda that no one will silence her story anymore.

Romi Gonen (R) and mother Meirav Leshem-Gonen (L) embracing following Gonen's return from Hamas's terror captivity.

Anti-Israel activists clash with deceased hostage Ran Gvili's family at Netanyahu Miami shul speech

Gvili's aunt, Tami Tzioni, told N12 that the fallen police officer's parents were unharmed in the incident, but there was fear that a greater incident could have happened.

Activists hold signs calling for the return of the final two hostages' remains, including St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, at Hostage Square, Tel Aviv, November 29, 2025.

'I could hear the carnage': Former hostage Elkana Bohbot recounts Nova massacre, Hamas captivity

"I produced the party. I brought a ton of people to that place, I begged people to come," said Bohbot, detailing the guilt he carries for inviting people to what turned into a massacre.

Former Israeli hostage Elkana Bohbot reacts as he returns home after leaving the hospital, following his release from captivity in Gaza, in Mevaseret Zion, Israel, October 19, 2025.

How Gazan medical professionals were complicit in hostage captivity, sexual assault - opinion

If medical professionals can participate in terror without accountability, then the laws meant to protect humanity have been hollowed out from within.

 Smoke rises as displaced Palestinians take shelter at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, November 8, 2023.

2025’s ‘Persons of the Year’: Israeli mothers - opinion

Beyond the statistics, Israeli mothers’ everyday poetry and superhuman courage perpetually inspire.

 SERENA KALISH (pictured) gave birth to her fourth child during a weekend filled with missile-warning sirens and uncertainty. The night of her delivery, sirens rang through the halls of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center as Iranian missiles were intercepted overhead.

'We'll knock them down': Trump backs attack on Iran if weapons development continues

Trump was meeting with Netanyahu for talks on breaking a deadlock over the Gaza ceasefire and addressing Israeli concerns about Iran and Hezbollah.

US President Donald Trump (R) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) upon arrival at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025.