The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Saturday after an inquiry that the three hostages who were mistakenly killed on Friday were shirtless, waving white flags, and calling in Hebrew, and were shot by soldiers who thought they were being lured into a trap.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday that Israeli soldiers involved in combat against Hamas terrorists in Gaza had killed three Israeli hostages who were mistaken for the enemy.
An Israeli doctor is adding to growing accounts of torture and abuse by Hamas terrorists against Israeli hostages, telling the media that she has found evidence of sexual abuse, psychological torture, and forced medication with powerful drugs.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recovered the bodies of two hostages in Gaza: Eden Zacharia, 27; and IDF soldier Ziv Dado, 36, the Israeli military announced on Tuesday.
A Hamas spokesman said Sunday that the terror organization will kill all of the presumed 137 hostages in its custody if Israel does not accede to its demands.
A video of freed Israeli hostages recounting their experiences in Hamas captivity was released on Saturday, as Israelis continued to press for their freedom.
Two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were wounded in an overnight attempt to rescue hostages held by Hamas, the Israeli military said on Friday.
An Israeli military spokesman expressed serious concern over the sexual abuses Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas are enduring, as reports of such assaults emerge from recently freed captives and the doctors treating them.
Two of the 23 Thai hostages released by Hamas terrorists late November have spoken of their treatment and revealed “Israelis had it worse.” The pair spoke to the German outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) and told of days of agony and torture
Relatives of freed Israeli hostages, and an official from Israel’s health ministry, told a parliamentary committee in the Knesset on Tuesday that Hamas drugged the hostages with tranquilizer pills before their release to make them seem happy and relaxed.
On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) called for the defunding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and criticized their lack of seriousness over reported testimony from a hostage
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “One World,” Director of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Affairs in Gaza Thomas White responded to questions on reported allegations from an Israeli hostage that a UNRWA teacher helped
Amit Soussana, 40, who was recently freed from captivity in Gaza, struggled against seven Hamas terrorists as she was dragged away from Israel on October 7, according to newly-released surveillance footage.
Hamas interrogated Israeli civilian hostages, including the elderly, about their past military service, and that of their neighbors, using physical force to extract answers, according to former hostages interviewed by Israel’s Army Radio on Monday.
The child hostages who were returned to Israel during the seven-day truce lost 10-15% of their body weight and had lice and rashes, among other problems, according to Dr. Yael Mozer-Glassberg, who treated them at Schneider Children’s Medical Center.
Anti-Israel activists pointed to the “thank you” letter as evidence Danielle Aloni was treated well. She described her captivity as “gruesome.”
May Golan, Minister for the Advancement of the Status of Women of Israel, said Saturday that she had approached former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama to condemn attacks on Israeli women by Hamas on October 7 — and been met with complete silence.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the head of the Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, to return home from Doha, Qatar, on Saturday because negotiations with Hamas had reached a “dead end.”
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari suggested Friday that red-headed Israeli infant Kfir Bibas; his four-year-old brother, Ariel; and their mother, Shiri may still be alive as hostages in Gaza.
The Ziyadne family, a Bedouin Muslim Arab family who are citizens of Israel, greeted two teenagers who were released Thursday night by Palestinian Hamas terrorists just hours before Hamas terminated the truce that had allowed for hostages to be freed.
Glenn Greenwald performed an immense public service Thursday when he interviewed the pro-Palestinian intellectual Rashid Khalidi and asked him whether Israel “had a legal and moral right” to respond militarily to the Hamas terror attack of October 7. Khalidi evaded
The week-long truce between the Palestinian terror group Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ended on Friday morning local time as Hamas launched rockets toward Israel, prompting the IDF to launch airstrikes on Hamas targets in Gaza City.
Two Muslim Arab teens are among eight Israeli hostages released by Hamas on Thursday night, part of a Bedouin family that was abducted by the Palestinian terror group in its October 7 attack, in which dozens of Muslim and Arab Israelis were also murdered.
Hamas terrorists branded some Israeli child hostages by forcing their legs against the exhaust pipes of motorcycles so that they would be burned and would be recognizable if they tried to run away, according to a report in the Israeli media on Thursday.
The Palestinian terror group Hamas released a video showing Yarden Bibas weeping over the alleged death of his wife, Shiri; his four-year-old son, Ariel; and his infant son, Kfir, all of whom were abducted on October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel.
The story of how 17-year-old Israeli hostage Mia Leimberg saved her family dog, Bella, and defied Hamas terrorists has emerged.
Two more Israeli hostages were freed Thursday after walking the now-customary gauntlet of jeering Hamas supporters in Gaza.
Pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University historian Rashid Khalidi declined to say Thursday that Israel had a legal or moral right to respond militarily to the Hamas terror attack of October 7, describing the attack as a natural result of occupation.
Israel and Hamas extended their truce into a seventh day at the last minute, with a deal that will see Hamas release eight hostages to Israel and the bodies of three hostages who died (or were murdered) in Hamas custody.
The sixth and final group of hostages — ten Israeli, four Thai — entered Israeli territory early Thursday morning as a truce expired between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Israeli children were kept as hostages in Gaza by a variety of civilians — including a teacher for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and a Palestinian doctor who isolated the Israeli child from his own children and denied him food.
A Thai hostage who was freed by Hamas has told Israel’s Channel 12 that the Jewish hostages who were held with him were beaten with electric cables, and that all hostages were denied adequate food.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that it is evaluating claims by Hamas that a mother, her child, and her infant are dead after being taken hostage from the Israeli community of Kfar Aza by Palestinian terrorists during the October 7 attack.
Negotiators in Doha, Qatar, over the release of further groups of Israeli hostages have divided them into groups and categories — like cattle, much as Nazis divided Jews into different groups at concentration camps and death camps in the Second World War.
Twelve hostages released by Hamas — nine Israeli womaen, one Israeli female teenager, and two male Thai workers — are safe in Israel after a harrowing transfer in which they were jeered by a crowd of Hamas terrorists and supporters as they left Gaza.
Hamas terrorists are evidently trying to improve their image, posing Tuesday for a photograph with a freed Israeli hostage girl who is seen holding a cute puppy.
Hamas released on Sunday four-year-old hostage Abigail Mor Edan, whose great aunt is a reported buyer of Hunter Biden’s artwork and a big donor to Democrats.
Hamas terrorists held an Israeli child hostage alone for 16 days, according to the child’s grandmother, commenting after his release Monday night.
A source within the Israeli government told Breitbart News on Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s pressure would lead to Hamas surviving the war intact, rather than allowing Israel to destroy Hamas or remove its military and governing capabilities.
The Oakland City Council adopted a resolution Monday night demanding a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — while rejecting amendments condemning Hamas for terrorism against civilians.
