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Red Cross teams are searching Gaza's ruins for deceased hostages who were held in Gaza after Israel warned Hamas it had until tonight to return the remaining bodies. However, the International Committee of the charity said it may take…

Israel's final 20 living hostages could face lifelong health issues, experts have warned, after enduring more than 700 days in captivity in Gaza. The current condition of all the hostages — men aged between 21 and 48 — is unknown after…

About a month ago, Raquel Look chose Monday for a ceremony in Côte Saint-Luc, Que., to mark the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel that killed her son Alexandre Look. Alexandre was one of the 1,200 people killed…

Israeli hostages finally released from Hamas captivity look shockingly different as they are reunited with their families after 738 days in Gaza.The 20 remaining living hostages were released on Monday, two years after being kidnapped…

Eli Sharabi assumed the emergency alarm was just another rocket attack – the kind of everyday intrusion that his family had come to consider an unwelcome fact of life as they sheltered at home in Kibbutz Be’eri, early on October 7, 2023,…

Israelis are preparing to welcome home the last living hostages from Gaza and mourn the return of the dead, as the IDF says the Red Cross is on its way to meet them.The IDF confirmed Monday morning that the Red Cross is headed to a…

Israel is bracing for the return of the 20 remaining living hostages after over 730 days spent in captivity in underground tunnels in Gaza. When freed, they will doubtless tell the world of the hardship they endured, with former captives…

Hamas has moved hostages above ground to use them as 'human shields' ahead of Israel's expected ground offensive in Gaza, according to local media.Residents of Gaza City - home to roughly one million Palestinians - have been bracing for…

Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it…

Armed militants who ambushed a train carrying hundreds of people in Pakistan have now killed at least 50 of their hostages, Pakistani authorities have said.Pakistan militants claimed on Wednesday they had killed 21 hostages after…