PARIS — The photo of the white-haired woman in a golf cart, wrapped in a purple blanket and flanked by a gunman, was among the first to emerge of the hostages seized during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. But Yaffa Adar’s granddaughter is afraid that the world’s memory of that harrowing day – … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TOKYO — A suspected gunman is holed up in a post office with an unconfirmed number of hostages on Tuesday in the greater Tokyo area, after an apparent shooting at a nearby hospital where two people were injured, according to media reports citing police sources. Two people … Read more
Before he was kidnapped, Hersh Goldberg-Polin was a big reader. He would absorb himself in different types of books at different times, according to his father, Jonathan Polin. For a while, he was obsessed with biographies of presidents. There was a period he read exclusively about the Holocaust. Lately, he’s been reading books that, Polin … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV — Ayelet Samerano, whose 21-year-old son Jonathan was abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, watched on television Friday night as Israel’s ground and aerial attacks on Gaza ramped up. The expanded military operation with ground troops caught her by surprise. Israeli officials had not warned … Read more
(Reuters) – Hamas is looking for eight people identified by Russia as possibly being among the hostages in Gaza and is ready to free them, Hamas Politburo member Abu Marzouk told Russian state news agency RIA on Saturday. RIA cited Marzouk, who has been visiting Moscow, as saying that the Russian foreign ministry had handed … Read more
Combat inside tunnels is incredibly difficult, Luttwak said, noting that it requires a specific skill set and that standard tactics and weaponry are often not suitable inside a subterranean setting. “Tunnel warfare is not for amateurs,” he said. Spencer noted that it’s difficult to execute offensive operations inside the tunnels because navigation and communication systems … Read more
JERUSALEM — The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel, once again putting the small Arabian Peninsula country in the spotlight. The negotiations have also thrust Qatar into a delicate international balancing act as it … Read more
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israel escalated its bombardment of targets in the Gaza Strip, the military said Tuesday, ahead of an expected ground invasion against Hamas militants that the U.S. fears could spark a wider conflict in the region, including attacks on American troops. The stepped-up attacks, and the rapidly rising death toll of thousands … Read more
Hamas released two Israeli hostages — Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79 — into Israel Defense Forces custody Monday, according to a statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s office. The Israeli government thanked the Egyptian government and the International Committee for the Red Cross, while The Washington Post reported that Qatar was also involved … Read more
Tons of Hollywood stars are banding together to pressure Hamas to release all hostages taken by the terrorist group in Gaza … and they’re asking President Biden to help make it happen. Tiffany Haddish, Bradley Cooper, Justin Timberlake, Chris Rock, and Gwyneth Paltrow are among the big names who signed an open letter to Biden, … Read more