US EditionFamilies of Hostages Held in Gaza Hope for Their Own Ceasefire After Truce in Israel-Iran Conflict
- On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, including Gali and Ziv Berman.
- This attack was part of a long-standing conflict involving Iran-backed militants, with Iran-armed Hamas aiming to catalyze wider regional attacks against Israel.
- The Berman twins, abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza near Gaza, have been held captive for 629 days amid ongoing hostilities and intermittent ceasefires.
- The Israeli government sees a new window of opportunity to negotiate as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended 12 days of fighting, with 33 hostages freed earlier this year.
- Families of hostages hope these developments might pressure Hamas to soften demands and lead to releasing all captives, though the war and negotiations remain complex and unresolved.
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There is still no sign of life for Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, the French state hostages in Iran, after the Israeli bombings on Evin prison. The information is fragmented: the prison infirmary, the parlor room, the court and the high-security quarter 209, where the couple was detained, were affected and severely damaged. The images to which their lawyers were able to access are icy and show parts of the prison under the rubble. So the relat…
The families and lawyers of the two French who had been detained in Iran for three years had denounced their "forced disappearance" after Israel's bombing of the prison on Monday.
‘I was a hostage of the Iranian regime’: The Tipperary native on being held in dire conditions and the war with Israel
Almost everything we think we know about Iran is wrong, maintains Bernard Phelan. And he should know – he has travelled there extensively, spending an unwanted 222 days in one of its most notorious prisons, when he was held ‘hostage’ by the regime on trumped-up spying charges.
The Fighting Has Stopped between Israel and Iran. Families of Hostages Now Hope for a Deal in Gaza
OR AKIVA, Israel (AP) — Liran Berman hasn’t had much to keep hopeful over the 629 days of his twin brothers’ captivity in Gaza. Ceasefire deals have collapsed, the war has dragged on, and his siblings remain hostages in the Palestinian enclave.
Hostage families protest in Tel Aviv, demand full deal, slam Netanyahu over Gaza war
Thousands rallied in Tel Aviv as hostage families declared an end to 'partial deals,' urging a full agreement to free hostages from Gaza and slamming the government for prolonging the war
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