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☆ Families of female Israeli hostages release graphic abduction footage to pile pressure on Netanyahu
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Rob Picheta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Families of seven female Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas during the October 7 attacks have released graphic footage of their abduction as they pile pressure on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure their release. The video shows the women — all Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel — lined up against a wall, their hands bound. The footage was previously released by Hamas, according to the Hostages Families Forum. The campaigning group obtained it from the IDF, which had previously edited the video to exclude the most disturbing scenes. Efforts to reach a deal that would pause the war in Gaza and allow the release of hostages have repeatedly been dashed.

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☆ Opinion | A ‘Changed Landscape’: Voices From Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:I write this as I mark Israeli Independence Day in the changed landscape of my neighborhood. Up the block: those of three more fallen soldiers. The park next to the grocery store: dedicated to the memory of another fallen soldier. Around the corner: the home of a young man murdered at the Tribe of Nova music festival on Oct. 7. Past the park: the home of Noa Marciano, a soldier and hostage who was murdered in Al-Shifa Hospital.

Persons: He’s, Noa Marciano Organizations: Shifa Locations: Gaza, Aza, Al, Israel

Tuesday’s release followed the return of 11 Israelis on Monday, 13 on Sunday, 13 on Saturday and 13 on Friday, nearly all of them women or children. Seventeen Thais, one Filipino and one Russian-Israeli dual citizen were also released through separate negotiations. Four other hostages were released before the cease-fire. Israel has freed 180 imprisoned Palestinians — roughly three for every Israeli hostage released — in exchange for the release of the hostages. At least four hostages have died in captivity, according to Israel and Hamas.

Persons: Noa Marciano, Yehudit Weiss, Ravid Katz, —, Arye Zalmanovich Organizations: Hamas, West Bank, Palestinian Locations: Israel, Gaza, East Jerusalem

☆ Explainer: What do we know about Israeli hostages in Gaza?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

According to Israeli media and the Israeli government, up to 40 hostages being held are children, including a 10-month-old baby and preschoolers. The Israeli military said earlier this month that it recovered the bodies of two hostages in Gaza City, including 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano. The Israeli military has said it found evidence that some hostages were held at or under hospitals. The military released video that it said also showed militants forcing two hostages into Shifa hospital on Oct. 7. Hamas released another video in October that showed three women hostages denouncing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Persons: Amir Cohen, Judith Raanan, Natalie Raanan, Nurit Cooper, Yocheved Lifshitz, Ori Megidish, Noa Marciano, Marciano, Lifshitz, Benjamin Netanyahu, HOW, Netanyahu, Cynthia Osterman, Deepa Babington Organizations: REUTERS, Hamas, WHO, Islamic, Israel Defence Forces, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Tel Aviv, Israel, U.S, Thailand, Britain, France, Argentina, Germany, Chile, Spain, Portugal, Gaza City, Al Shifa, Jerusalem

☆ Israeli Army Displays Tunnel Beneath Al Shifa It Says Served as Hamas Hideout
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Ronen ZvulunGAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army showed a reinforced tunnel beside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Wednesday, complete with a bathroom, kitchen and an air conditioned meeting room that it said had served as a command post for Hamas fighters. Israel has long accused Hamas of using the Shifa hospital complex as a command and control center as part of a wider strategy that seeks to hide its forces among the civilian population. He said the army knew the tunnel led to another opening in a Gaza kindergarten. Israel has faced international criticism for its Gaza campaign, including its attacks on Shifa, the enclave's largest hospital. But Hagari, referring to Hamas' use of a hideout beneath the hospital, said: "The world now should say what happened in Shifa, what happened in the hospitals, is a war crime."

Persons: Elad Tsuri, Israel's, Tsuri, Israel, Daniel Hagari, Noa Marciano, Al, Ronen Zvulun, Howard Goller, James Mackenzie, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Hamas, Army, White Locations: GAZA, Al Shifa, Gaza, Israel, Washington, Shifa

☆ Israeli army displays tunnel beneath Al Shifa it says served as Hamas hideout
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Ronen Zvulun | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

GAZA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The Israeli army showed a reinforced tunnel beside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Wednesday, complete with a bathroom, kitchen and an air conditioned meeting room that it said had served as a command post for Hamas fighters. Israel has long accused Hamas of using the Shifa hospital complex as a command and control center as part of a wider strategy that seeks to hide its forces among the civilian population. [1/5]Israeli soldiers stand near the opening to a tunnel at Al Shifa Hospital compound in Gaza City, amid the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, November 22, 2023. He said the army knew the tunnel led to another opening in a Gaza kindergarten. Israel has faced international criticism for its Gaza campaign, including its attacks on Shifa, the enclave's largest hospital.

Persons: Elad Tsuri, Israel's, Ronen, Tsuri, Israel, Daniel Hagari, Noa Marciano, Al, Ronen Zvulun, Howard Goller, James Mackenzie, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Hamas, Army, Palestinian, REUTERS, White, Thomson Locations: GAZA, Al Shifa, Gaza, Israel, Al, Gaza City, Washington, Shifa

☆ 31 premature babies suffering from dehydration, hypothermia, and sepsis were safely taken out of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Premature babies were safely taken to Egypt from Gaza's main hospital on Sunday, however, four died prior to the evacuation. The plight of the newborns has become a potent symbol in the devastating war between Israel and Hamas. The plight of the babies, along with Israeli claims against Shifa Hospital, have become potent symbols in the devastating war between Israel and Hamas. They had dehydration, hypothermia, and sepsis in some cases, said Mohamed Zaqout, director of Gaza hospitals. Noa Marciano, whose body was recovered in Gaza last week, had been killed by Hamas in the hospital.

Persons: —, Mohamed Zaqout, Cpl, Noa Marciano, Marciano, Osama Hamdan Organizations: Service, Shifa Hospital, Hamas, Health Organization, WHO, Associated Press Locations: Egypt, Gaza's, Palestinian, Israel, Gaza, Rafah, Shifa, Israeli

☆ Israel says soldier executed, foreign hostages held at Gaza's Shifa hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Israel is also searching for some 240 people Hamas kidnapped to Gaza after an Oct. 7 cross-border assault that sparked the war. One of these was a 19-year-old Israeli army conscript, Noa Marciano, whose body was recovered near Shifa last week. The Israeli military said a forensic examination found she had sustained non-life-threatening injuries from such a strike. "According to intelligence information - solid intelligence information - Noa was taken by Hamas terrorists inside the walls of Shifa hospital. Mounir El Barsh, the Gaza health ministry director, dismissed the Israeli statement on the tunnel as a "pure lie".

Persons: Al, Al Shifa, Noa Marciano, Noa, Daniel Hagari, Hagari, gurney, El Barsh, Dan Williams, David Holmes, Alex Richardson Organizations: Palestinian, Israel Defense Forces, Al, CCTV, Thomson Locations: Al Shifa, Gaza, Israel, Palestinian, JERUSALEM, Shifa, Thai, Al Jazeera

☆ Family buries Israeli conscript hostage, vows never to forgive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Janis Laizans | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Noa Marciano, 19, was at a military base near Gaza on Oct. 7 when it was overrun by Hamas fighters. Hamas released a video earlier this week saying she had died in an Israeli airstrike. The Israeli military said on Friday they had found her body the day before in a building adjacent to Gaza's Shifa Hospital and returned the corpse to Israel for burial. Around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, were killed by Hamas during their attack, while up to 240 were taken hostage. Israel declared war on Hamas after its surprise assault, bombarding the Palestinian enclave and launching a land invasion.

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☆ Family Buries Israeli Conscript Hostage, Vows Never to Forgive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Janis LaizansMODIIN, Israel (Reuters) - The body of an Israeli hostage recovered from Gaza City was buried on Friday by weeping family and friends, with her mother telling mourners she would never forgive what had befallen her daughter, a teenaged conscript soldier. Noa Marciano, 19, was at a military base near Gaza on Oct. 7 when it was overrun by Hamas fighters. Hamas released a video earlier this week saying she had died in an Israeli airstrike. The Israeli military said on Friday they had found her body the day before in a building adjacent to Gaza's Shifa Hospital and returned the corpse to Israel for burial. Around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, were killed by Hamas during their attack, while up to 240 were taken hostage.

Persons: Janis Laizans MODIIN, Noa Marciano, Marciano's, Marciano, Yehudit Weiss, Be’eri, We've, Omer Weiss, Benjamin Netanyahu, Janis Laizans, Crispian Balmer, Toby Chopra Organizations: Hamas, Gaza's Shifa, Tel Aviv . Locations: Israel, Gaza City, Gaza, Gaza's, Al Shifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv . Israel

Since then, Israel has bombed much of Gaza City to rubble, ordered the depopulation of the entire northern half of the enclave and left homeless around two-thirds of the strip's 2.3 million Palestinians. Israel dropped leaflets over eastern areas of Khan Younis telling people to evacuate to shelters, suggesting that military operations there are imminent. Because the western areas are closer to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, humanitarian aid could be brought in "as quickly as possible," he said. Israel has long maintained that the hospital sat above a vast underground bunker housing a Hamas command headquarters. In Modiin, Israel, family held a funeral for Noa Marciano, 19, an Israeli army conscript whose body was recovered from Gaza City near Shifa hospital on Thursday.

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☆ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for independent investigation into Al-Shifa hospitals claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Andrew Carey | David Shortell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN cannot independently verify the claim by Israel that the image is of a Hamas tunnel. The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Israel to grant independent investigators access to Gaza to probe the competing claims. “This is precisely where you need an independent international investigation, because we have different narratives,” said Türk on Thursday. The IDF on Thursday released an image of what it said were weapons recovered from inside Al-Shifa hospital. On Wednesday, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby reiterated previous statements from the White House saying the US had intelligence that Hamas was operating in Al-Shifa Hospital.

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☆ Israel confirms death of captive soldier shown in Hamas video
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

JERUSALEM, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Israel's military on Tuesday confirmed the death of a soldier held captive in Gaza after Hamas issued video of her alive followed by images of what the Palestinian faction said was her body after she was killed in an Israeli strike. In the Hamas video, disseminated on social media on Monday, Noa Marciano identified herself on camera and said she had been held in Gaza for four days - indicating it was taped on Oct. 11. The video then shows still pictures of a young woman of similar appearance lying, looking sallow and with her eyes closed, on a blood-stained bedsheet. A caption said Marciano, 19, was killed "in an air strike by the Zionist enemy" last Thursday. The military statement did not comment on the circumstances of Marciano's death other than to describe her as an "abductee fatality in the hands of a terrorist organisation".

Persons: Israel, Noa Marciano, Marciano, Dan Williams, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Gaza

More than 1,200 people in Israel died, most of them in the Hamas attack, and about 240 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by Palestinian militants. The army said Tuesday that it has captured Gaza’s legislature building, the Hamas police headquarters and a compound housing Hamas’ military intelligence headquarters. Israeli news sites showed pictures of Israeli soldiers hoisting the Israeli national flag and military flags in some of the buildings. The Israeli military did not give a reason for her death, while Hamas said she was killed in an Israeli strike. On Nov. 5, the Israeli military struck a car on the road between the southern Lebanese towns of Ainata and Aitaroun.

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