The world on Monday celebrated the release of the remaining hostages taken by Hamas in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, as the first phase in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan held in the shaken region. Twenty Israeli hostages in Gaza were transferred to the ...

Their faces stare down from every street corner in Israel on posters now sun-faded and ripped. Their stories, told by anguished family members, are almost as well-known as celebrities. They are civilians and soldiers, fathers and sons. Some were at the ...

Many family members of the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza and a handful of those who have been released expressed optimism at the current push for a ceasefire agreement on Tuesday, the second anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack. The Hostage ...