In 1985, Sinwar’s mentor and Hamas’s founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, found his freedom the same way: Israel traded him and 1,150 other security prisoners for three captured IDF soldiers.Jerusalem’s ...

The scale of the hostage situation in the Gaza Strip has no recent precedent. By David Leonhardt and Lauren Jackson Shiri Bibas, a young mother, is holding her two redheaded sons — Ariel, who ...

Hamas has a history of involvement in hostage situations. In 2006, Hamas abducted an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, to the Gaza Strip, holding him for more than five years before finally handing ...

On Thursday, the family of a man still believed to be held in captivity was joined by Gov. Brian Kemp in calling for his ...

Hostage Situation. Trump, ... Hamas freed American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander on Monday after more than 19 months in captivity. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab has the details.

The Hamas hostage situation is particularly challenging because you could attribute all three of these motivations to them. They surely want to use the hostages for some instrumental goal, most ...

A hostage-taking manual that an official in the Israel Defense Forces told me was recovered in the aftermath of the Hamas attack suggests that the group’s hostage-taking on October 7 did not go ...

Further complicating the situation, US officials say, is that Hamas consists of numerous and often competing subgroups and militias that all operate in Gaza.

Further complicating the situation, US officials say, is that Hamas consists of numerous and often competing subgroups and militias that all operate in Gaza.

American-Israeli families whose loved ones are missing and believed to be held hostage by Hamas in Gaza speak at a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 10, 2023.

A3: The hostage situation is unprecedented. Hamas took so many hostages from so many different places, threatened to use them as human shields, and threatened to execute them as part of its war aims.

The families of three men taken hostage by Hamas, including a well-known Israeli-American, have authorized the release of a video documenting the kidnapping near the Israel-Gaza border on Oct. 7 ...