Israeli-American Keith Siegel was seized in the Hamas attack, he says a deal to bring home the remaining hostages must be ...

Despite his gratitude for every day he gets with his son, Levy’s ordeal won’t truly be over until all the hostages are home. ...

Hamas' armed wing spokesperson said on Friday that while the group favours reaching an interim truce in the Gaza war, if such ...

When Hamas took some 250 people hostage from southern Israel on October 7, “they thought they could try to leverage them for a prisoner exchange deal,” Mustafa said.

Hamas has threatened to execute hostages and broadcast video of the execution if Israel strikes targets in Gaza without warning. The approach with the likely lowest risk to the hostages is a ...

That may make it easier for the Biden administration to take a backseat to Israel in the Hamas hostage crisis. Still, the dynamic puts the U.S. in a bind, several analysts said, ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the moment I learned my son was taken hostage. Last October – a few days after Hamas’ murderous rampage through Israel – a group of Israeli officials stood ...

A hostage crisis — punctuated by graphic and bloody videos appearing to show militants abducting Israelis — continued to unfold Sunday as Hamas’ attack on Israel entered a second day.

Hostage-taking, like collective punishment, is among the most barbaric but also oldest tactics in human warfare. And yet something qualitative changed on Oct. 7, when Hamas went on its murderous ...

The crisis began on Nov 4, 1979, when a mass of militant Islamic “students” in a surprise attack broke into the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took all of its 66 occupants hostage.

Slonim, the former hostage negotiator, dismissed the notion that the Israeli government could heed Hamas’s demands to release all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails—of which there are ...

Two Tiny Captives, Symbols of Hostage Crisis, to Go Home Dead, Hamas Says. Hamas said it would turn over the bodies of the boys, Ariel Bibas and his baby brother, Kfir, and their mother.