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☆ Freed Israeli hostages tell families of beatings and death threats
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Howard Goller | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Danny Brom, director of METIV: The Israel Psychotrauma Center, said some will need medical treatment but others will not. Since the latest round of releases began on Friday, with Israel releasing some jailed Palestinians in exchange, the freed hostages have been kept away from the media. Most of the 240 hostages that Israel says were seized on Oct. 7 are still in captivity. Hamas portrays the treatment of hostages as humane, and says it has treated the hostages in accordance with Islamic teachings to preserve their lives and wellbeing. Officials at Israeli hospitals say hostages experienced poor nutritional health, and many with chronic diseases were denied medical treatment, causing serious health problems.

Persons: Gal Goldstein, Danny Brom, Brom, Deborah Cohen, France's, Eitan Yahalomi, Thomas Hand, Emily Hand, Hand's, Emily, Yair Rotem, Hila Rotem Shoshani, Raaya, Merav Mor Raviv, Keren Munder, Ohad, Ruth, Elma Avraham, Tali Amano, Ahal Besorai, Alma, Noam, Besorai, Adva Adar, Yaffa Adar, Daniel Aloni, Emilia, Daniel, Howard Goller, Timothy Organizations: Hamas, Schneider Children's Medical, Israel Psychotrauma Center, CNN, Israel's, Reuters, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Palestinian, Israel, JERUSALEM, pita, Israeli

☆ Israeli hostages didn't know if their families were alive or dead and only found out after being released
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Israeli hostages didn't know whether their relatives were alive or dead while in Hamas captivity. More than 50 hostages taken into Gaza have since been released. AdvertisementRecently freed Israeli hostages were so cut off from the outside world while in Hamas captivity that they only discovered whether their family members were dead or alive after they were released, according to relatives. AdvertisementThe Munder family "didn't have a clue" about the push for their release, said Raviv, according to the Times. Meanwhile, relatives of the freed hostages revealed details about their loved ones' time in captivity, saying that they lost weight, spent hours waiting for the bathroom, and slept on plastic chairs pushed together.

Persons: didn't, —, Yaffa, Adva Adar, Yaffa Adar, Adar, Freed, Adina Moshe, Moshe's, Eyal Nouri, Moshe, Nouri, Ruth Munder, Roi, Merav Mor Raviv, Munder, — Avraham Munder, Raviv, Israel Organizations: Service, Associated Press, Hamas, AP, The New York Times, Times, Gaza Ministry, Health Locations: Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas, Israel

☆ First testimonies shed light on the conditions endured by Hamas’ Israeli hostages
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Rob Picheta | Joseph Ataman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —For more than six weeks, the conditions in which the Israeli hostages captured by Hamas were being held in Gaza were virtually unknown to the outside world. Over the first three days of the truce, Hamas released a total of 58 hostages, primarily women and children, and Israel freed 117 Palestinian prisoners. A Red Cross convoy carrying Israeli and foreign hostages heads to Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Sunday. Eighty-four-year-old Alma Avraham, who was among the Israeli hostages freed from Gaza on Sunday, has been admitted to the intensive care unit, Israel’s Soroka Medical Center said. CNN has previously reported that an estimated 40 to 50 of the hostages were held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad or other groups or individuals.

Persons: Adar, Yafa, “, ” Adva, Rice, Keren Munder, pita, Merav Mor Raviv, Munder, Mor Raviv, Fatima Shbair, Wichanguen, Vetoon Phoome, Alma Avraham, ”, Shlomi Codish, Yelena Magid, Roni Kriboy, Magid, ” Magid, Kriboy, Omri Almog, Chen Goldstein, Tal, ” Almog, Yam, Nadav, Israel – Organizations: CNN, Cross, Medical, Soroka Medical, Monday, Kan, Hamas, Palestinian Locations: Gaza, Israel, Egypt, Russian, Kriboy

☆ Freed Israeli Hostages Share Details of Captivity, Relatives Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Isabel Kershner | More About Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

A mother released from captivity in Gaza with her young son told relatives that they had slept on chairs pushed together. The freed hostages have not spoken directly to the news media and most are still being treated in private areas of Israeli hospitals. Relatives who have spoken or met with some of the released hostages said all seemed to have spent their weeks in captivity totally cut off from the outside world, and to have returned thinner than before. Adva Adar’s grandmother, Yaffa Adar, 85, was among the hostages released on Friday. The Or siblings were taken hostage with their father, Dror, who is believed to still be held in Gaza.

Persons: “, ”, Merav Mor Raviv, Keren Munder, Ohad, Ruth Munder, Ms, Raviv, Keren, Adva, Yaffa Adar, Adva Adar, Roi, Ruth, Avraham Munder, — Noam, Alma, —, Yonat, Ahal Besorai, Dror, Besorai, Noam Organizations: Media Central, BBC Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ 85-year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor taken hostage by Hamas reunited with her family
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Yaffa Adar reunited with her family in Tel Aviv after seven weeks in captivity. AdvertisementYaffa Adar, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, was one of the first 13 hostages released from Gaza after 49 days in Hamas's captivity, i24NEWS reports. Yaffa Adar is a mother of three, grandmother of eight, and great-grandmother of seven. The family reunion at Wolfson Hospital in Holon, near Tel Aviv, followed the four-day cease-fire brokered between Israel and Hamas. The hostages released by Hamas have undergone initial medical tests and are reportedly in good condition, per the IDF.

Persons: Yaffa Adar, —, Nahal Oz, Tamir Adar, Adva Adar, Adva, Alon, Orian, Adar, Yael Adar, Yaffa's, Iris Boker, Yaffa Organizations: Service, Wolfson Hospital, National Holocaust Center, Museum, Hamas Locations: Tel Aviv, Gaza, Holon, Israel, Jerusalem, Be'eri, Warsaw, Poland, Nazi, Thailand, Philippines

LUZIT, Israel, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Soon after Hamas gunmen invaded Israel's villages videos began to emerge of seized Israelis being dragged away into Gaza. One showed an elderly woman, a defiant expression on her face, driven on a golf cart into the Palestinian enclave. The family of the bespectacled grey-haired woman, wrapped in a pink blanket and later identified as 85-year-old Yafa Adar, recognized her instantly. "I can't even start to understand how people think it makes sense to kidnap an 85 years old lady, kidnap babies, kidnap kids," said Adva. And you can see there, she's sitting trying to show them, she's not afraid and she's not hurt.

Persons: That's, Adva Adar, Nir, Yaffa's, Israel, Adva, she's, Maayan Lubell, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: LUZIT, Israel, Gaza, Luzit, Adva's

☆ A woman said her 85-year-old Israeli grandmother was whisked away by Hamas on a buggy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Photos published by the AP show an elderly woman driven in a buggy by gun-toting militants. Dozens of people were taken hostage by Hamas on Saturday in a wave of surprise attacks. AdvertisementAdvertisementA woman has been asking social media for information after seeing a photo of her 85-year-old grandmother being driven away by Hamas fighters. The photos show an elderly woman wrapped in floral garb sitting in the vehicle, as a militant behind her totes a rifle. US State Secretary Antony Blinken said on Sunday that the US is working to verify reports of Americans being among those killed or taken hostage by Hamas.

Persons: —, Adva Adar, Yaffa, Hatem Ali, Adar, Benjamin Netanyahu, Antony Blinken Organizations: AP, Service, Hamas, Facebook, Associated Press, Times, Reuters Locations: Israeli, Kfar, Gaza, Times of Israel, Israel, Syria, Lebanon

Netanyahu’s vow to unleash the full force of the Israeli military on Hamas has raised fears for the safety of Israeli civilians spread in undisclosed locations across the densely populated Gaza Strip. “It will make things much more complicated.”Political Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesLocating Israeli hostages in Gaza — something Israeli intelligence agencies failed to do in the case of Shalit — poses further challenges. “So the army would have to bomb everything.”Hamas already has said it seeks the release of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails — some 4,500 detainees, according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem — in exchange for the Israeli captives. There is “absolutely no chance” that the current government would agree to the release of Palestinian prisoners, said Gayil Talshir, a political scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This included the Schalit deal in 2011, and Israel’s release of 1,150 jailed Palestinians in exchange for three Israeli prisoners in 1985.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Gilad Shalit, Israel, Netanyahu, ” Michael Milstein, Shalit, ”, Yaakov Amidror, “, Khalil Shikaki, —, Gayil Talshir, Yair Lapid, Netanyahu “, Bezalel Smotrich, ” “, Ehud Yaari, Tali Levy, Adva Adar Organizations: JERUSALEM, Gaza, Hamas, West Bank, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Center, Policy, Survey Research, Palestinian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Saturday Locations: Jihad, Gaza, Tel Aviv, Israel, ”, Ashdod

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