KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Hamas on Friday freed an American woman and her teenage daughter it had held hostage in Gaza, Israel said, the first such release from among the roughly 200 people the militant group abducted during its Oct. 7 rampage in Israel. The two Americans, Judith Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie, … Read more
Scores of Israeli citizens who were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists during their deadly terrorist attack are still alive, according to the Israeli military. As many as 200+ people were kidnapped by Hamas in the October 7 attack. More than 20 of those captured are under the age of 18, while another 10 to 20 hostages … Read more
October 19, 2023 at 2:23 p.m. EDT Hadas Kalderon, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, in an apartment in Tel Aviv on Thursday. Two of her children have been detained by Hamas. (Ofir Berman for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV — At 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 7, … Read more
Around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Doron Asher Katz called her husband. The 34-year-old was visiting her mother in the Nir Oz kibbutz, a communal settlement in the south of Israel, along with her two daughters, 2-year-old Aviv and 5-year-old Raz. “I got a phone call in which she was saying that they were locked down … Read more
Comment on this storyComment JERUSALEM — Shelly Shem Tov’s house has become a command center of panic. Since her 21-year-old son Omer was kidnapped during a dance party Saturday — as his parents helplessly tracked his phone entering the Gaza Strip — every room has been filled with friends and family, working to find something, … Read more