By Steven Scheer and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Aid trucks rolled into Gaza on Wednesday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas. Israel had threatened to keep Rafah shut…
Former Israeli hostage Noa Argamani spoke out Tuesday after her partner was released under the Gaza ceasefire deal, to describe the differences in their treatment in captivity in the Palestinian territory. “Two years passed since the last moment I saw Avinatan, the love of my life,” Argamani, who was freed during an Israeli military operation…
Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert gave their reactions to the Gaza peace deal on Monday night. Both late-night hosts conceded that President Donald Trump successfully helped broker a breakthrough ceasefire that resulted in Hamas releasing the remaining Israeli hostages, while still finding plenty of other things to criticize the president about. “What a day for…
new video loaded: ‘War in Gaza Is Over,’ Trump Says During Middle East Trip transcript Back transcript ‘War in Gaza Is Over,’ Trump Says During Middle East Trip President Trump visited Egypt and Israel on Monday as the 20 hostages in Gaza were returned to Israel in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees….
new video loaded: Friends and Family Celebrate Return of Israeli Hostage transcript Back transcript Friends and Family Celebrate Return of Israeli Hostage Alon Ohel was kidnapped by Hamas after fleeing the Nova music festival in October 2023. More than two years later, Hamas freed Mr. Ohel as part of a cease-fire deal with Israel. There…
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Former Israeli hostage Noa Argamani — whose desperate cries on the back of a motorcycle became one of the most haunting images of the Hamas October 7, 2023, attack — was reunited on Monday with her newly freed boyfriend, Avinatan Or. A government video showed Or, 32, first hugging and…
new video loaded: Swap of Israeli Hostages and Palestinian Prisoners Begins Hamas began releasing some of the 20 living Israeli hostages held in Gaza on Monday as part of a cease-fire deal in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. By Shawn Paik October 13, 2025 Source link
Updated on: Oct 13, 2025 12:51 pm IST The first seven hostages were handed over during the first phase of the hostage release on Monday. Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances move towards the eastern Gaza Strip from Khan Yunis as Israel and Hamas begin their hostage release (AFP) The hostage release between Israel and Hamas has…
CAIRO (AP) — Israelis on Monday prepared to welcome home the last living hostages from devastated Gaza and mourn the return of the dead, in the key exchange of the breakthrough ceasefire after two years of war. Palestinians awaited the release of hundreds of prisoners held by Israel. U.S. President Donald Trump was arriving in…
The main change to the list is centered around two security prisoners who will be swapped for Hamas-linked terrorists who aren’t facing life sentences. Government ministers participated in an urgent telephone vote to approve amendments to the list of terrorists and security prisoners to be released during the first phase of the hostage deal, Kan…