Paweena Ninbut and Jiraporn Sricham of BBC Thai and Flora Drury Reporting fromBangkok and London BBC The five farm workers were taken hostage in October 2023 Five Thai farm workers who were abducted during the 7 October attacks by Hamas on Israel have been released after being held for almost 500 days in Gaza. They…
Reuters Clockwise from top left: Karina Ariev, Naama Levy, Daniella Gilboa and Liri Albag Hamas has named four hostages to be released on Saturday under the Gaza ceasefire deal. It says they are soldiers Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag. They will be freed in exchange for 180 Palestinian prisoners held in…
Getty Images Hostages’ families want the Israeli government to agree a deal that will secure their release Negotiators from Israel and Hamas are making a final push to seal a Gaza ceasefire in Doha, with all sides suggesting an agreement is almost done. There were reports of a breakthrough on Wednesday, with unnamed Israeli officials…
AFP US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened that “all hell” will break loose if the hostages are not released before he takes office The outline of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal currently being discussed by Israel and Hamas at indirect talks in Doha has been on the table since May. So why is…
A senior Hamas official has shared with the BBC a list of 34 hostages that the Palestinian group says it is willing to release in the first stage of a potential ceasefire agreement with Israel. It is unclear how many hostages remain alive. Among those named are 10 women and 11 older male hostages aged…
Hamas has posted a video showing a 19-year-old Israeli captive, as indirect talks between the group and Israel on a ceasefire and hostage release deal resume in Qatar. The footage shows Liri Albag calling for the Israeli government to reach a deal. She was taken hostage along with six other female conscript soldiers at the…
An investigation by the Israeli military has found that the actions of their forces on the ground likely influenced the killing of six hostages in Gaza in August by Hamas. It said the “ground activities in the area, although gradual and cautious, had a circumstantial influence on the terrorists’ decision to murder the six hostages”….
Israel’s defence minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen, which has been firing missiles and drones at Israel. Haniyeh was killed in a…
Oct 29, 2024 11:49 PM IST Hamas is open to discussing a new deal securing an end to Gaza war, and Israeli pull-out from the region, said a group official. A senior Hamas official said on Tuesday the Palestinian militant group was studying new proposals from mediators to end the Gaza war but reiterated that…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interrupted by family members of victims at a memorial event for October 7 Hamas attacks. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog attend a memorial ceremony of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the ongoing…
