Play video content Hamas terrorists have released footage of a hostage who was kidnapped amid the Israel attacks … showing the young girl receiving medical care while asking to be returned home. 21-year-old Mia Shem is seen with her arm bandaged up in the clip posted on Hamas’ Telegram channel Monday. She then addressed the … Read more
“She basically called to tell us goodbye,” Sasha Ariev says of her younger sister Karina. The 19-year-old Israeli soldier contacted her family on the morning of Oct. 7 from an Israeli military base near the Gaza border where she was stationed and which, moments earlier, had been breached by Palestinian militants. “If she won’t live, … Read more
JERUSALEM — In the hours after Hamas blew through Israel’s heavily fortified separation fence and crossed into the country from Gaza, Ahal Besorai tried desperately to reach his sister. There was no answer. Soon after, he learned from witnesses that militants had seized her, her husband and their teenage son and daughter, along with dozens … Read more
President Biden is set to address the Gaza-Israel war at 1 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday as the United States rushes to deliver military aid to Israel amid the deepening conflict. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said there would be a “full siege” of Gaza after the Hamas militant group launched an unprecedented incursion over … Read more
Comment on this storyComment The Biden administration raced to deliver military support to Israel on Monday in its spiraling conflict with Hamas, as U.S. officials vowed to account for Americans killed or potentially held hostage in the Gaza Strip. A senior defense official said the Pentagon was “surging support” to its closest Middle Eastern ally … Read more
JERUSALEM — The capture of dozens of Israeli soldiers and civilians — elderly women, children, entire families — by Hamas militants has stirred Israeli emotions more viscerally than any crisis in the country’s recent memory and presented an impossible dilemma for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government. The Islamist militant group’s 2006 seizure of … Read more
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities rescued a 17-year-old boy in Southern California after he was kidnapped and held hostage for four days by captors who threatened to harm him if his family did not pay a $500,000 ransom. The teen was rescued Friday after law enforcement tracked him and his three kidnappers to a … Read more