Gaza hostages

"We wake up every morning for those who aren’t here to be better people and grow from the pain. If we’re united, nothing can defeat us," Almog said.

Gaza City guards moved their hostages around much more often than hostage guards did in other parts of Gaza, although hostages were also moved there, he said.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen’s son Sagui spent 498 days in captivity in Gaza after he was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, on October 7, 2023.

Israeli forces demolished the home of Youssef al-Ziadna’s sister, sparking backlash from the family, who accuse the government of insensitivity amid their mourning of loved ones taken by Hamas.

Israel’s Consulate in New York marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with billboards in Times Square, warning against rising antisemitism and remembering the horrors of the Holocaust.

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The completion of the phase of returning the hostages from Gaza must serve as a lesson that it is both a security and moral obligation to decisively defeat Hamas.

Closure brings its own burden: a country that has endured this scale of loss still needs to fathom how and why Israel was so catastrophically unprepared.

At a joint conference with Hostage Coordinator Gal Hirsch, Netanyahu pointed out that, for the first time in 12 years, there are no hostages being held in the Gaza Strip. 

To celebrate this day and honor those who have fallen, The Jerusalem Post has created a timeline in remembrance of the national struggle to finally bring every hostage home.