This is the emotional moment a freed Israeli hostage learnt the name of his daughter who was born while he was held captive by Hamas. Sagui Dekel-Chen embraced his wife Avital as they were reunited after 498 days. After hugging for several seconds, Sagui asks Avital what she named their third daughter, who is now
JERUSALEM — After the most perilous week yet for an already shaky cease-fire that has paused the calamitous Gaza war, the truce stayed on track Saturday with Hamas’ release of three Israeli hostages, one of them a U.S. citizen. Israel, in turn, freed 369 Palestinian prisoners, its government said. The exchange, the sixth of its kind since
Israel released 369 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office. This comes after Hamas released three more hostages, marking its sixth hostage release since the the ceasefire with Israel began in January. Loved ones were seen hugging freed prisoners as they arrived in Khan Younis in buses and Palestinian prisoners were
Hamas freed three more Israeli hostages on Saturday in a ceremony marked by some of the same provocative theatrics used by the Palestinian militants in previous releases. It was the sixth round of a tense series of hostage-for-prisoner exchanges that are part of a 42-day cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas, which went into effect
Reuters The Israeli hostages appeared before a crowd in Khan Younis before their release Hamas has freed three Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, in the latest swap under the ceasefire agreed by Israel and the militant group last month. The three hostages handed over on Saturday are American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen,
An Israeli American hostage recently freed from Hamas released a powerful message thanking Donald Trump for being the ‘reason I am home alive’ and urged him to bring those remaining in captivity home. Keith Siegel, 65, issued a statement on Friday commending the president for his ‘strength’ and ‘leadership’ during the conflict in Gaza while revealing the
President Donald Trump’s administration has secured the release of 11 U.S. hostages held by foreign governments since taking office less than one month ago, according to the White House. The Trump administration has emphasized arranging the release of U.S. hostages under his second administration and welcomed U.S. Marc Fogel, a U.S. history teacher who had
Hamas has released the names of three hostages due to be freed on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel, after days of fears over the future of the ceasefire. They are Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, Argentine-Israeli Yair Horn, and US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen. Israel has said it will resume bombing if the three are not
Orly Gilboa says her daughter Daniella was only properly fed in the months before release. Parents of four young female Israeli hostages freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza have told the BBC about how their daughters were abused, including being starved, intimidated and threatened by armed men, and forced to cook and clean. They recounted
Jonathan Head South East Asia Correspondent Thai News Pix More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centres in Myanmar’s Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand. The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian nations, were received