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Illustrative: Two women, one of them wrapped in an Israeli flag, help to set the 'The Empty Seder Table,’ with 133 chairs and place settings, representing hostages still being held in Gaza by Hamas, in front of Downing Street in London, Britain, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
April 10, 2025, 12:02 pm
Freedom
There are still 59 hostages being held in Hamas tunnels in Gaza, not all of them alive.
The 24 hostages presumed to be alive who are still held by Hamas: Top row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Edan Alexander, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from left: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Bipin Joshi, Rom Braslavski, Ziv Berman, Gali Berman. Third row, from left: Omri Miran, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Bottom row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Tamir Nimrodi, Pinta Nattapong. (Hostages Families Forum)
April 9, 2025, 10:52 am
Health report released for 24 living hostages
Hostage report exposes brutal captivity: starvation, injuries, isolation detailed in testimonies and videos.
By SHIRA SILKOFF
US President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025 (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
April 8, 2025, 1:13 pm
​Trump, Netanyahu discuss Iran nuclear talks dispute​
Netanyahu backs diplomacy but warns on Iran nukes; Trump says high-level meeting set for Saturday.
By By LAZAR BERMAN and AGENCIES
Left to right: Sarit Zussman, mother of Ben Zussman, who was killed fighting in Gaza; Shira Shapiro, mother of Aner Shapira, who was murdered in the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught; and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was murdered in captivity in August 2024, appear in an interview on Channel 12, March 14, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
March 18, 2025, 9:49 am
Bereaved mothers learned of sons’ heroism
After his release, Or Levy told Shira how Aner saved him from grenades and Rachel how Hersh gave him strength.
By TOI STAFF
Hostage Matan Angrest in a first image released by his family from Hamas captivity, March 3, 2025 (Courtesy)
March 4, 2025, 2:02 pm
First photo of hostage soldier Matan Angrest released
Angrest’s mother demands return of all captives ‘before we deploy more soldiers who won’t return’.
By TOI STAFF
Kfir and Ariel Bibas.
February 26, 2025, 2:28 pm
Israelis are still waiting to exhale 
Only when the Hamas death cult is eradicated from the face of the earth, will Israelis be able to breathe again
By Anna Pasternak
Relatives of recently freed hostages Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen, and Omer Shem Tov hold a press conference at the Rabin Medical Center on February 23, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Families Forum)
February 24, 2025, 1:48 pm
Families of freed hostages share new details
Father of Hisham al-Sayed says he returned a shell of a person after a decade in Hamas captivity; Netanyahu speaks to freed captives Sagui Dekel-Chen and Ohad Ben Ami.
Posters on which "don't leave me behind" is written in Hebrew show Shiri Bibas (C) and her children Kfir (R) and Ariel, outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, February 19, 2025. Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90
February 21, 2025, 4:42 pm
Local Jewish group slams Hamas for body switch
'We urge the Albanese Government to condemn Hamas' vile tactics in the strongest terms'
By AJN STAFF
Shiri Bibas.
February 21, 2025, 2:31 pm
Women’s organisations urged to stand up for Shiri Bibas
"As the voice of Jewish women in Australia, NCJWA calls upon women’s organisations across our country and the world to stand up against this horrific treatment of a mother."
By AJN STAFF
Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas Photo: Courtesy
February 21, 2025, 10:57 am
Remains of Bibas brothers identified, third body is not of mother Shiri
The IDF said the boys were ‘brutally murdered’ in November 2023 when they were 10-months-old and 4-years-old and demands that Hamas return Shiri home.
By TOI STAFF
A protest tent calling for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, February 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 19, 2025, 11:02 am
Six living hostages set to be released Saturday
The group includes two men who entered Gaza years ago, a father taken from Kibbutz Be’eri, and three from Nova.
By TOI STAFF
Demonstrators protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside the IDF's Kirya Base in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
February 18, 2025, 9:17 am
Hamas to return bodies of four hostages
Israel is preparing for four bodies to be returned as Jerusalem tries to free captives faster.
By By LAZAR BERMAN and JACOB MAGID AND TOI STAFF
Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Dec. 21, 2024. (The Times of Israel: AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
February 13, 2025, 7:00 am
500 days
500 days since 1200 Israeli souls were murdered in cold blood – including entire families, soldiers in their beds and young adults dancing the night away – simply for being Jews.
By AJN STAFF
Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin.
February 13, 2025, 7:00 am
Navigating unimaginable grief and trauma
Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the parents of murdered hostage Hersh Golberg-Polin, spoke to The AJN about the love they've received from Australia's Jewish community.
By Carly Adno
Israeli captives, from left to the right, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who have been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, onstage before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
February 10, 2025, 1:26 pm
‘Severe physical and mental deterioration’
Outlets cite families of Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami as saying they were held in Gaza tunnels; health officials: Conditions worse than previous returned captives.
By ELANA KIRSH and DIANA BLETTER and TOI STAFF
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