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☆ Teenage siblings freed from Hamas captivity, only to learn their mother had been murdered
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But when Noam, 17, and Alma, 13, were released together on Saturday, “this dream had been shattered by the fact that she was murdered,” said the siblings’ maternal uncle Ahal Besorai. In total, some 1,200 people, most civilians, were slain by Hamas militants across southern Israel that day. It was amid this chaos and terror that Noam and Alma were separated from their parents and taken hostage by Hamas. Noam, Alma and the third woman in their room shared a diary, but the siblings weren’t allowed to bring it with them during their release, said Besorai. Still, he worries about the toll that captivity has taken on them, and the trauma that may linger.

Persons: Noam, Alma, they’d, ”, Ahal Besorai, “, ” Besorai, Dror, Besorai, Noam –, –, ‘ Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Israel Locations: Gaza, Alma, Philippines, Israel, Be’eri

☆ Emily Hand: Father describes how his young daughter survived Hamas captivity
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Clarissa Ward | Rachel Clarke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Tel Aviv, Israel CNN —Emily Hand had to run from house to house, forced to move by Hamas as Israeli forces attacked Gaza, her father Thomas Hand told CNN. This September 2023 photo shows Emily Hand near Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel. Yael Shahrur Noah/APFrom death to captivity to hopeEmily had been at a sleepover at Hila’s house when Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be’eri. But Emily told her father she thought he had been taken hostage too. A year.”Emily Hand embraces her father at a hospital in Israel after being released by Hamas on November 25.

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☆ Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, Gaza truce, hostages and prisoners released
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

"This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief. Hand had been at a friend's house in the kibbutz of Be’eri when Hamas militants attacked on October 7. On Sunday, the Israeli military released video of Emily being reunited with her father, Thomas Hand, after she was freed with other Israeli hostages on Saturday. In an emotional reunion, Emily can be seen dashing toward her father and the two hug each other tightly.

Persons: Emily Hand, Thomas Hand, Leo Varadkar, Varadkar, Emily Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, Reuters Irish Locations: Israel, Irish, Be’eri, Gaza

☆ Israel-Hamas War Israel Faces Decision on What to Do After End of Truce
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Patrick Kingsley | Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Hamas released a second group of 13 Israeli hostages on Saturday as part of a cease-fire deal, a day after it released another 13. (Read about the Israeli hostages who have already been released here.) “I want to start walking to where the decisions are made.”Sharon Avigdori, 52; Noam Avigdori, 12Image Sharon and Noam Avigdori Credit... Maya Regev, 21Image Maya Regev Credit... Regev Family, via Associated PressMaya Regev was at the Tribe of Nova music festival on Oct. 7 when Hamas attackers infiltrated Israel and massacred hundreds of young festivalgoers. Their mother, Yonat, was one of dozens killed in Kibbutz Be’eri.

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The militants released 17 hostages, including 13 Israelis, while Israel freed 39 Palestinian prisoners. Hamas is to release at least 50 Israeli hostages, and Israel 150 Palestinian prisoners. A BITTERSWEET MOMENT FOR HOSTAGE FAMILIESShortly before midnight, Hamas released the second group of hostages, 13 Israelis and four Thais. The Israeli hostages freed on Saturday included seven children and six women, Netanyahu’s office announced. A kibbutz spokesperson said all the released hostages either had a family member killed in the Oct. 7 rampage or a loved one still in captivity in Gaza.

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Sharon Avigdori, a sister of Avshalom Haran and a drama therapist, was visiting her family in Be’eri with her daughter, Noam Avigdori, when they were seized. Her family initially believed she had been killed in the attack, but was later informed that she was kidnapped. Her older sister, Natalie Hand, told Israel’s Channel 12 that the family had cried for Emily when it was informed she had been killed. Maya Regev, 21Image Maya Regev Credit... Regev Family, via Associated PressMaya Regev was at the Tribe of Nova music festival on Oct. 7 when Hamas attackers infiltrated Israel and massacred hundreds of young festivalgoers. We will not stop until Itay and all the hostages get back home.”

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☆ Deal to Free Child Hostages in Gaza Inspires Hope and Anguish
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Isabel Kershner | More About Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

And an infant, now all of 10 months, who has spent about a tenth of his life in captivity. They are among the more than 30 children abducted from their homes and taken to Gaza during the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7. Almost a day after the deal was announced, the families had yet to receive any information from the authorities. Some, but perhaps not all, of the children are expected to be among the first hostages released in the coming days under a deal announced on Wednesday. Islamic Jihad, another armed group in Gaza, released the hostage video of Yagil Yaakov, 12, who was captured along with his brother Or, 16.

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Families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza awoke on Wednesday to news of a deal that brought both hope and agony. Israel has said that about 240 people were taken hostage to Gaza, and it remained unclear which of them would be released under the cease-fire deal announced overnight. Hours after the deal was announced, families said they had received no official information from the Israeli authorities. At least 36 Israeli civilians ages 18 and under are being held in Gaza along with 13 of their mothers. People have been calling to congratulate the family since Tuesday night, Ms. Engel Lichi said on Wednesday morning.

Persons: “, ”, Yael Engel Lichi, Ofir Engel, Yuval Sharabi, Engel Lichi Locations: Gaza, Israel, Jerusalem, Be’eri

There’s a lot of anxiety.”The Israeli government and Hamas announced Wednesday morning that they would uphold a brief cease-fire in Gaza to allow for the release of the hostages. “I’m trying to take care not to be happy too quickly,” Ms. Zailer said on Tuesday. His family in Israel still does not know where he and his brother are being held, whether they are with their parents — or even if they are still alive, Ms. Zailer said. “We are being torn apart,” Ms. Zailer said, calling it an impossible situation. At Kibbutz Nir Oz, 76 people were taken hostage on Oct. 7, according to Irit Lahav, a kibbutz spokeswoman.

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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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☆ Israel investigates sexual violence committed by Hamas as part of October 7 horror
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Jake Tapper | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Israeli police are using forensic evidence, video and witness testimony and interrogations of suspects to document cases of rape amid the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Women and girls caught in the rampage were brutalized sexually, as well as physically tortured and killed, witnesses to the aftermath say. The aftermath of an unprecedented Hamas assault on communities near Gaza,seen at the Kibbutz in Be'eri, Israel, October 14. Israeli police are working to document cases of rape amid the October 7 Hamas attacks. “It’s much worse than just silence or an insult to us as Israeli women and to our children and to our people,” she said of the UN.

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☆ 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.

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☆ Body of Israeli hostage found near Al-Shifa hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Tamar Michaelis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A 65-year-old Israeli woman who was kidnapped by Hamas militants on October 7 has been found dead near Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, the Israeli military said Thursday. The body of Yehudit Weiss, a resident of kibbutz Be’eri, was found by Israeli soldiers in Gaza City and brought back to Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. The IDF said her body had been recovered from what it called a “structure” near to the Al-Shifa hospital, where the IDF on Wednesday launched what it called a “precise and targeted” operation against Hamas, which it says has been using the hospital for military purposes. Hamas and hospital officials have consistently rejected Israel’s claims that Hamas has built a command center under the hospital. The Hostages and Missing Person’s Families Forum, a group established by the families of those abducted by Hamas, said Weiss was a 65-year-old grandmother.

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☆ Israel Is In Real Danger For Three Reasons - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Thomas L. Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

After traveling around Israel and the West Bank, I now understand why so much has changed. It is crystal clear to me that Israel is in real danger — more danger than at any time since its War of Independence in 1948. Last Saturday night, a retired Israeli Army commander stopped by my hotel in Tel Aviv to share his perspective on the war. Consider this context: “According to Israel’s official Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2021, 9.449 million people live in Israel (including Israelis in West Bank settlements), the Times of Israel reported last year. Let me not mince words, because the hour is dark and Israel, as I said, is in real danger.

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Tel Aviv CNN —Mourning his 8-year-old daughter believed killed in Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel, Thomas Hand said he was at least partially consoled militants had not taken her hostage. “She is more than likely in a tunnel somewhere under Gaza,” Hand told CNN, recalling how the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently shared new intelligence. Emily Hand, 8, was believed to have been killed during the attack in Be'eri on October 7. The IDF estimates 240 Israeli hostages are being held by Hamas in Gaza, including civilian men, women and children. Thomas Hand said he was told Emily might be alive and taken hostage in Gaza.

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☆ Hunted by Hamas: reconstructing the attack on Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Rescue missionIt was around 4 p.m. when Menachem Klemenson got a four-word WhatsApp message from his brother Elhanan: “Packing, going down south,” it read. As the Klemensons and their nephew drove around extracting families, kibbutz residents jumped out of their hiding places. I am a father.”In the girl’s case, as with the bodies of other kibbutz residents the trio found, they did not know their identities, nor was Reuters able to identify them. “Either you leave the dog or I shoot it,” Menachem recalls his brother Elhanan saying. Politicians and the military had violated a fundamental compact with the residents of Be’eri, said kibbutz secretary Pauker.

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☆ Israel’s body collectors encounter horrors beyond their worst nightmares
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Weeks on, as the war continues to rage, ZAKA volunteers are still collecting remains. The aftermath of the attack is so gruesome that only the most experienced ZAKA volunteers are allowed to take part in body collection. On Friday, he and other ZAKA volunteers were combing through homes in Be’eri for the second time, finding more victims and collecting remains left behind during their first visit. As ZAKA volunteers worked in Be’eri, several busloads of foreign journalists arrived, escorted by the IDF. Most ZAKA volunteers say that they haven’t begun to process the trauma, and when they can step away, they don’t want to think.

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EIN BOKEK, Israel (AP) — For evacuees of Kibbutz Be’eri, the salty waters of the lowest point on earth, known for their healing powers, are little comfort for a grief that feels bottomless. Kibbutz leaders recite the names that have officially migrated from lists of the missing to lists of the dead. Only 3,000 hotel rooms across the country are still available, according to the Israel Hotel Association, and many evacuated border communities have scattered to find shelter. Kibbutz Be'eri, too, is named after Katznelson. "But where were they?”___Sam McNeil contributed from Kibbutz Be'eri.

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☆ Woman Missing After Hamas Abducted Her From Kibbutz Is Found Dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An 18-year-old Israeli woman who was taken hostage by Hamas from a kibbutz in Israel and has been missing since Oct. 7 was found dead, her uncle said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. The woman, Celeste Fishbein, lived in the Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gazan border, where more than 100 people were found dead after the Hamas incursion. “A woman from the Israeli army, who has the hardest job in the world, came to our home today to inform us of Celeste’s death,” her uncle, Mario Fishbein, said in a telephone interview from Israel.

Persons: Celeste Fishbein, ”, Mario Fishbein Locations: Israel

☆ Opinion: Where the war goes from here
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. The war plays out on everyone’s screens, forcing people to confront cruelty and killing and to fear what comes next. “Hamas’ mission is, by definition, to end Israel, not to seek to establish a self-governed Palestinian state that peacefully coexists alongside the Jewish state. “An Israeli normalization deal with Saudi Arabia — the location of the two holiest sites in Islam — would be hugely symbolic and have real security benefits for Israel,” wrote Peter Bergen. “After all, almost exactly half a century ago, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, two Arab states, Egypt and Syria, attacked Israel.

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☆ Hamas Fighters’ Orders: ‘Kill as Many People as Possible’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An Israeli soldier stood next to a damaged house in Be’eri, Israel, on Saturday. (Martin Divisek/Shutterstock)Written orders carried by Hamas fighters sent to attack Israeli towns and settlements last weekend contained the same chilling command: Kill as many people as possible. Documents recovered from the bodies of dead militants at the sites of attacks that killed more than 1,300 Israelis point to a deliberate strategy to massacre civilians, Israeli officials said.

Persons: Martin Divisek Organizations: Hamas Locations: Israeli, Be’eri, Israel

☆ Gaza: Israel calls on 1.1 million people to evacuate south in order UN warns is 'impossible'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Helen Regan Caitlin Hu Mohammed Tawfeeq Akanksha Sharma Nadeen Ebrahim | Helen Regan | Caitlin Hu | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Gaza City is part of the coastal strip and is particularly crowded. A man reacts outside a burning collapsed building following Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on October 11. Atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel last weekend sparked international revulsion and escalated the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Hamas militants breached the heavily-fortified border in a coordinated assault, indiscriminately killing men, women and children, and taking as many as 150 hostages back to Gaza. An IDF Artillery solider covers his ears as a shell is fired toward Gaza on October 11, near Netivot, Israel.

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We are used to the bombing, we know what is sounds like: ‘tat - tat - tat.’ But this was different. Tat - tat - tat - tat - tat - tat - tat,” Michal Pinyan, Lotan’s wife, told CNN. “And then some 45 minutes later, we started getting messages that there are terrorists in the kibbutz,” Lotan added. So death was a blessing,” he told CNN, his voice broken, tears streaming down his tired, ashen face. She told CNN that she knows her parents have died, because their bodies were identified by people who knew them personally.

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☆ The last text I got from my dad was, ‘They are in the safe room. They caught us’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Stephanie Griffith | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Ben Ami believes that her father and mother are among those kidnapped and being held in Gaza by the militants. Ben Ami said she hopes eventually to be able to return to her beloved community. Ben Ami: I was awakened at 6:20 in the morning by the alarm app on my phone. Ben Ami: There’s no way to close the door that prevents you from being able to open it from the outside. Ohad Ben Ami Yulie Ben AmiCNN: Have you been there your entire life?

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