2 h. ago The hidden health problems Israel's last 20 hostages could face for YEARS after being released from Gaza

The current condition of all the hostages - men aged between 21 and 48 - is unknown after they were returned yesterday following the signing of the Gaza peace deal.

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2 h. ago Identities of the dead hostages returned to Israel are revealed

In a statement, the Israel Defence Forces named two of the victims as 26-year-old Israeli national Guy Iluz and 22-year-old Nepalese agriculture student Bipin Joshi.

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2 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Will Trump's deal bring lasting peace to Gaza?

Some 20 Israeli hostages were released yesterday after Israel agreed, in exchange, to start freeing more than 1,900 prisoners and detainees as part of a ceasefire.

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3 h. ago Missing bodies of hostages top the list of uncertainties as fragile Gaza ceasefire holds

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is holding even as complex issues remain ahead, a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange

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4 h. ago Gaza ceasefire live: Israel identifies dead hostages and says troops have fired at suspects as key truce issues remain

Defence minister says delay in returning more bodies would be a violation of ceasefire as forces open fire on people approaching troops in northern GazaIsraelis and Palestinians celebrate as truce brings hope of ‘era of peace’Despite the ceasefire agreement, a medical source told Palestinian news agency Wafa today that four people were killed when Israeli drones fired at residents inspecting their homes in Gaza’s eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood. We have not yet been able to independently verify this information.Israel’s military said it opened fire on Tuesday to remove a threat posed by several suspects who approached Israeli forces operating in the northern Gaza Strip. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Israel tells Hamas to return the remaining 24 dead hostages today 'and believes the terror group is deliberately holding on to some of them'

Four bodies were returned to Israel on Monday, and another 24 are supposed to be turned over as part of the first phase of the peace deal.

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5 h. ago Keir Starmer to address nation at 12.30pm as he gives major statement to Parliament

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is due to give a statement to MPs in the House of Commons after returning from a summit on Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan in Egypt

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5 h. ago Horrors endured by Israel's last 20 hostages: Chained, tortured, and starved. As they are finally released from Gaza, captives reveal how Hamas made them suffer

The last 20 living hostages held by Hamas have revealed, for the first time, how the terror group made them suffer for the last two years. 

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6 h. ago Families of dead Israeli hostages accuse Netanyahu of betrayal as only four bodies are returned from Gaza

The whereabouts of 24 dead Israeli hostages remains unknown to their families, leaving them in anguish

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7 h. ago Families of deceased hostages accuse Israeli government of 'betrayal' as only four bodies are returned from Gaza

The whereabouts of 24 dead Israeli hostages remains unknown to their families, leaving them in anguish

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8 h. ago Muswell Hill woman who removed Israeli hostage ribbons speaks out

Muswell Hill woman who removed Israeli hostage ribbons speaks out  BBC

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12 h. ago The veneer of respectability given to Hamas is an open wound: ALEX BRUMMER

The tears of relief flowed freely among members of my family, scattered as they are across the globe as the 20 Israeli hostages who are still alive were freed yesterday from the hands of evil.

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12 h. ago SARAH VINE: It's so hard to stomach that 250 murdering terrorists will be free. But stomach it we must...

Witnessing the unalloyed joy and relief on the faces of the surviving Israeli hostages as they were finally freed yesterday was a deeply emotional moment.

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13 h. ago Don Jr calls bluff of The View cohost who vowed to wear MAGA hat on

The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin made the pronouncement in December 2024

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15 h. ago Crowds erupt in Tel Aviv as Israeli hostages freed in historic prisoner exchange

Hostage Square erupted into song as the names of the freed Israeli hostages were read out over loudspeakers, while a giant screen showed live footage of them being handed over to Israeli troops as part of a US-brokered peace deal.

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15 h. ago Tears of joy after Hamas hell as Trump peace deals sees all 20 hostages released

Donald Trump's early stages of a peace deal between Israel and Hamas has seen the release of 20 hostages being returned today after months of hell in captivity

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16 h. ago Moment buses carrying 2,000 freed Palestinian prisoners including murderers & terrorists arrive in Gaza

ISRAELIS are counting the cost of having the 20 ­hostages home as buses carrying nearly 2,000 freed Palestinians — including murderers and terrorists — arrived in Gaza. Around 250 serious offenders serving life sentences in Israel were being welcomed back to Palestinian communities, along with 1,750 detainees held in Gaza. And many of the notorious...

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16 h. ago Israeli couple who became symbol of Oct. 7 tragedy are reunited with a kiss for the ages — two years after being torn apart

Avinatan Or has been reunited with Noa Argamani following his release from 738 days in Hamas captivity

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17 h. ago ‘How long we dreamt of this day’: Joy and pain as families reunite across Israel and Palestine

As Donald Trump claims ‘Holy Land is finally at peace’ in bombastic Knesset speech, Bel Trew in Tel Aviv, Rateb al-Qaissy in Ramallah and Nedal Hamdouna in Gaza witness very different homecomings for Israelis and Palestinians freed in deal

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17 h. ago Convoy carrying Israeli hostages inside coffins returns from Gaza in heartbreaking homecoming

An IDF escort of armored cars flying the Star of David was seen on Monday night heading to the National Institute for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv.

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