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TEL AVIV | TASS |  Israeli and US citizen Keith Sigal, who was released in the Gaza Strip, was taken to the territory of the Jewish state by the Israeli military, the army press service reported. “The released hostage Keith Sigal arrived in Israeli territory accompanied by the Israel Defense …

  JERUSALEM | Xinhua | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday that Hamas has not provided a name list of Israeli hostages to be released. “Hamas has not transferred a name list of (Israeli) hostages so far,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, denying previous media reports, …

The operation to free the hostages took place near a Palestinian refugee camp in Nuseirat TEL AVIV | TASS |  The Israel Defense Forces said it rescued four Israeli hostages that had been held by Palestinian radicals in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The operation to free the hostages took …

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua |  The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said in a statement late Saturday that it had handed over the second group of Israeli and foreign hostages to the Red Cross. A total of 17 hostages, including 13 Israelis and four Thais, have crossed into Egypt and …

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua |  Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency has received the first group of 13 hostages released from the Gaza Strip on Friday, local media reported. After the initial medical assessment, the hostages were returning to Israel, escorted by security forces, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson Daniel …

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) released two elderly Israeli women held hostage in Gaza on Monday, as more planes carrying humanitarian aid landed at Egypt’s al-Arish Airport in North Sinai, waiting to be sent into war-torn Gaza. As Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza and its …

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | AFP | Eleven people — six bank robbers and five hostages including a child — were killed Friday in a pre-dawn assault on two banks in a northeast Brazilian city foiled by police, the local mayor said. The violence erupted in the city of Milagres, …

By Aloysious Kasoma Police has rescued two South African citizens from their captors in Butabika, a Kampala suburb. According to Police, the victims have been identified as Dedre Audrey and Willem Jacobus Benjamin. Police Spokesperson Vicent Ssekate told the Independent that the hostages were convinced by the Member of Parliament …