JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bullets were found in the bodies of the six Israeli hostages retrieved from Gaza this week, the Hostage Families Forum campaign group said on Thursday, citing recent autopsy reports. The comments came a day after U.S. President Joe Biden pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the...

Bullets Found in Bodies of Israeli Hostages Retrieved From Gaza, Hostage Families Forum Says

NBC News

Nearly 11 months after he was taken hostage by Hamas, Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin was found dead in Gaza. President Joe Biden said Saturday night that Goldberg-Polin was among six hostages held by Hamas whose bodies were recovered in a tunnel under Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces said Hamas killed the six shortly before Israeli forces reached them.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Israeli American whose family led calls for hostage deal, is killed in Gaza

The Independent

 Watch live as the funeral of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin takes place today (2 September) in Jerusalem.Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino were all captured by Hamas during the 7 October attack that ignited the Gaza war.Goldberg-Polin, 23, was shown in a hostage video released by Hamas earlier this year, with part of his left arm missing.Speaking in Hebrew, he said he had been “here for almost 200 days” and called on his parents to stay strong for him.Tragically he and the five other hostages were all shot dead between 48-72 hours...

Watch: Funeral of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin held hostage by Hamas takes place in Jerusalem

Israeli troops have rescued an Israeli hostage from southern Gaza, the military announced Tuesday, the eighth captive held by Hamas to be brought back alive by Israeli forces since Oct. 7. Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, a Bedouin Israeli and father of 11 from the southern city of Rahat, worked as...

Hostage rescued from tunnel in Gaza; Bedouin father of 11 was a security guard on Oct. 7

Palestinian authorities in Khan Younis, Gaza, carried out a mass burial of 89 bodies returned to the territory by the Israeli military. Residents desperate for information about missing loved ones gathered at Khan Younis’ Turkish cemetery, hoping to identify the remains of their relatives. Palestinian officials said that the Israelis did not provide any identities for the corpses, and there is no information about when or how the individuals died. The Israeli military has not commented on the transfer of bodies and did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

Shocking video shows 89 bodies returned to Gaza by Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks after six hostages’ bodies were found in Gaza this weekend, sparking massive protests in Israel.

Netanyahu speaks after hostages found dead in Gaza

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The bodies of six hostages being held by Hamas have been retrieved from an "underground tunnel route" inside the Gaza Strip, Israel's military has said. A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the bodies of Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Chaim Peri and British-Israeli Nadav Popplewell were recovered from the Khan Younis area on Monday.

Six hostages' bodies retrieved from Gaza tunnels, says IDF

The Hill

The father of an Israeli American hostage being held captive by Hamas blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what he feels is prioritizing a total victory against the militant group in Gaza over securing a hostage release deal. “I think the vast majority of Israelis now have come to believe, by his actions —…

Parent of Israeli American hostage says Netanyahu’s ‘idea of total victory’ is ‘not realistic

The six dead hostages recovered by the Israeli army Saturday in Gaza have survived the 11 months of war but were "shot as their captors were fleeing", FRANCE 24 Correspondent Irris Makler said, adding that the hostages' remains were found in "a tunnel in Rafah" close to where another hostage was rescued last week.

Dead hostages in Gaza 'shot as their captors were fleeing'

The Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said early Sunday that it had recovered the bodies of six hostages captured during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that ignited the Gaza war, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents had led a high-profile campaign for the captives’ release. The military said the six...

Who were the 6 hostages whose bodies the Israeli military recovered from Gaza?

Hamas’s military wing says that two of its guards have shot and killed one Israeli male hostage held in Gaza and seriously wounded two female hostages. The Israeli military said in response that it did “not have any intelligence information that allows us to refute or confirm Hamas’s claims”.

Hamas says guards killed hostage and wounded two others in Gaza

The Guardian

Israel’s military spokesperson posted instructions on X for people in parts of central Gaza to evacuate

Israel-Gaza war: new evacuation orders in Gaza as 15 reported killed in Israeli strike – as it happens

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday pushed back against a new wave of pressure to reach a cease-fire deal in Gaza after hundreds of thousands of Israelis protested and went on strike and U.S. President Joe Biden said he needed to do more after nearly 11 months of fighting. In his first public address since Sunday’s mass protests showed many Israelis’ furious response to the discovery of six more dead hostages, Netanyahu said he will continue to insist on a demand that has emerged as a major sticking point in talks — continued Israeli control of the Philadelphi corridor, a narrow band along Gaza’s border with Egypt where Israel contends Hamas smuggles weapons into Gaza. Egypt and Hamas deny it. Netanyahu called the corridor vital to ensuring Hamas cannot rearm via tunnels. “This is the oxygen of Hamas,” he said. And he added: “No one is more committed to freeing the hostages than me. ... No one will preach to me on this issue.’

Netanyahu pushes back against new pressure over Gaza and hostages: 'No one will preach to me'

Axios

President Biden asked Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during their call on Wednesday to agree to pull Israeli forces back from part of the Egypt-Gaza border during the first phase of the hostage-release and ceasefire in Gaza deal so negotiations on the deal can move forward, three Israeli officials said. Why...

Scoop: Biden asked Netanyahu to pull Israeli troops from part of Egypt-Gaza border

BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — Qaid Farhan Alkadi was alone underground Tuesday after 326 days of captivity in Gaza when Israeli forces scouring Hamas’ vast tunnel network found and freed him. “Suddenly, I heard someone speaking Hebrew outside the door, I couldn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe it,” Alkadi,...

A hostage in Gaza is rescued by Israel after 326 days of captivity

Israeli President Isaac Herzog apologized for Israel’s failure to free the captives held by Hamas in his comments at the funeral of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old American-Israeli hostage murdered in Gaza this week. Herzog was the first speaker, preceding Goldberg-Polin’s parents, Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin. He spoke first...

At funeral, Israeli president asks for forgiveness from Goldberg-Polin family for failing to protect and save their son Hersh

CBS LA

Nogales, Mexico — While local food vendors, commuters and American travelers went about their day, migrants deported by the U.S. to this Mexican border city sat idly, visibly demoralized and disoriented."I'm desperate," said Emmanuel, a migrant from Mexico who had been returned from the U.S. earlier in the day. "I don't know what I will do."Emmanuel said he wanted to work in the U.S. and send money back to his family in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state. But soon after crossing into Arizona illegally, Emmanuel said he was detained by U.S. border agents and returned to Mexico. Asked about his next steps,...

"Deportations are 24/7": Migrants are quickly returned to Mexico

US President Joe Biden said Saturday that the body of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was among six recovered in Gaza by Israeli forces. "Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas," Biden said in a statement.

Biden says body of Israeli-American hostage among six recovered in Gaza

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Sunday the situation was "difficult" around Russia's main attack, which is focused in eastern Ukraine, but that all the necessary decisions were being taken. Syrskyi did not give the exact location of the main Russian offensive, but earlier both he...

Ukraine's Top General Says Situation 'Difficult' Around Main Russian Attack

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Hamas Says Hostage Guards in Gaza Have Been Operating Under New Instructions

CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas' armed wing said on Monday that since June the group has been operating under new instructions on how to handle hostages should Israeli...

Hamas Says Hostage Guards in Gaza Have Been Operating Under New Instructions

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