How Hamas Uses Brutality to Maintain Power
The group has abused hostages and Palestinians in its efforts to maintain control of Gaza and wage an insurgent war.
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We Will Dance Again
Not only did Hamas attack out of the blue without provocation, they employ a vitriol and complete lack of feeling for humanity that thank god we do...
Justice Department Announces Terrorism Charges Against Senior Leaders of Hamas
Yahya Sinwar and the other senior leaders of Hamas are charged today with orchestrating this terrorist organization’s decades-long campaign of mass...
Who were the 6 hostages whose bodies the Israeli military recovered from Gaza?
Goldberg-Polin and four other hostages were taken from a music festival where Palestinian militants killed scores of people. The sixth was captured...
Human Rights Watch finds Hamas guilty of war crimes on Oct. 7
“Palestinian armed groups committed a widespread attack directed against the civilian population, meeting the definition required for crimes against...
‘Take off your pants, spread your legs’: Captured documents show Hamas planned rapes, sexual mutilation
“Take off your pants” and “Take off your clothes” were among the instructions transliterated from Hebrew to Arabic, along with “Women here,” and...
Pro-Hamas Activist Declares: ‘We Don’t Want Zionists In Palestine, NYC, Our Schools, On The Train, Anywhere’
The founder of a radical anti-Israel, pro-Hamas activist group said she does not want Zionists “anywhere” in the world while speaking in defense of...
Disturbing New Video Shows Hamas Terrorists Kidnapping Female Israeli Hostages on Oct. 7
“The video of the female observers’ abduction is a wake-up call to the civilized world,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which released the...
Israel declares 4 more hostages are dead in Gaza, including 3 older men from Hamas video
Four more hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7 were declared dead by the Israeli military — including three older men seen in a Hamas video begging to be...
Nova Music Festival Massacre ‘Being Forgotten and Ignored,’ Says Jewish Music Executive After NY Exhibit Opens
“We had to go to Gaza, to take care that we won’t be massacred again.” When asked about the Gazans affected by the ongoing war between Israel and...
16 world leaders back Biden ceasefire call, urge Hamas to take deal
Leaders of 16 countries, including many whose citizens were taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, issued a statement on Thursday backing U.S. President...
‘I’ll Be Strong for You.’ A Former Hostage Awaits Her Husband’s Release.
She said her captors would hit and push her, blindfold her and pull her by the hair. They shaved Mr. Siegel’s body to humiliate him, she said. The...
Israeli amendment surprisingly passes World Health Assembly
The Israeli-drafted amendment calls for the release of the hostages whom Hamas and other terrorists continue to hold in Gaza and denounces the...
Joint Statement from the Leaders of the United States, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, and the United Kingdom Calling for the Release of the Hostages Held in Gaza
We call for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza for over 200 days. They include our own citizens. The fate of the hostages...
US: Hamas obstacle to hostage deal, despite ‘significant’ Israeli effort
“There was a deal on the table that would achieve much of what Hamas claims it wants to achieve, and they have not taken that deal,” the...
Freed hostage says Palestinian civilians abducted and sold her to Hamas
Nili Margalit, 42, on a tour of Europe to raise awareness of the 133 Israeli hostages still in captivity, told France’s Le Point magazine on Monday...
‘Raped Daily’: Former Israeli Hostages Recount Sexual Abuse by Hamas Terrorists as Families Plead for Action
The UN concluded in a report released last month that there is “clear and convincing information” that Hamas is perpetrating sexual violence against...
Believe all women, including Israeli women, too
Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians — not military targets, civilians — was not done in secret. It was not done under the guise of virtue, nor were...
Lady in Red
She became known as Israel’s ‘Lady in Red’ and was one of the most hauntingly iconic images from the October 7 massacre.
Aviva Siegel, a former hostage tells her story
former hostage who was released from Gaza after being abducted with her husband by Hamas terrorists on October
IDF finds Khan Yunis dungeon where hostages were held
Israel Defense Forces soldiers operating in the heart of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza discovered a large tunnel, one where Hamas had held a around a...
More Than a Fifth of Hostages in Gaza Are Dead, Israel Says
As Israel and Hamas inch closer to a deal to free hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and a cease-fire, the military disclosed that at...
U.N. to Study Reports of Sexual Violence in Israel During Oct. 7 Attack
A team from the United Nations has arrived in Israel to examine multiple reports of sexual violence during the Hamas-led attack.
Nova festival massacre survivors in France to recount horrors
partygoers—nearly one-third of the 1,200 people killed by Hamas terrorists during their mass invasion of the northwestern Negev. Many were wounded,...
Former Miss World slams women’s groups for Oct. 7 ‘silence’
“Hamas established a new evil strategy: Openly abusing mostly the female hostages, and also men, mutilating them—not in secret and not in the dark....
In critique of PM, Eisenkot says talk of ‘absolute defeat’ of Hamas is a tall tale
Rather, he said, he was trying “to be strong” in the wake of his son’s death and to “contribute and have an influence” for the good of Israel. He...
Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas in 7 October attacks
In the more than three months since the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian group Hamas, the atrocities the militants committed have been well...
Israeli women and girls have suffered horrific sexual violence from Hamas. Where is the outrage? | Ambassadors Deborah Lipstadt and Michèle Taylor
the voices of all women must be heard and believed. Any woman’s experience of gender-based violence should not be sidelined or discredited.
IDF Said to Know Where Hamas Leader Is, Won’t Strike Because He’s Surrounded Himself With Israeli Hostages
Israel is aware of the exact whereabouts of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ chief in Gaza, but is refraining from carrying out a military strike because the...
Oct. 7 Assaults, Including Sexual Violence, Could Be Crimes Against Humanity, 2 U.N. Experts Say
The experts’ statement came after the United Nations had been the focus of months of frustrated accusations that it was ignoring the rape and...
‘I hope they shoot her, I hope it’s quick’
On that day, rockets began raining down on Israel at 6:30 a.m. Eden, who was working as a bartender at the festival, phoned her mother to inform her...
My Second Trip to Gaza Was as a Hostage. I Will Never Return.
I met Gazan businessmen who traded with my brother-in-law in the city of Be’er Sheva and who came as guests to my home in Nir Oz…For a time,...
Israeli-French Hostage Recounts Harrowing Experience in Captivity
In an interview broadcast Friday on Israel’s Channel 13 TV, Schem said she was captured after she got out her friend’s burning car. She said her...
Friends star says Hamas rape deniers ‘re-traumatize survivors’
In an Instagram post, former Friends star David Schwimmer strongly criticized deniers of Hamas sexual assaults on Israelis on and after October...
Israel’s ‘Black Sabbath’: Murder, Sexual Violence and Torture on Oct. 7
Investigators build legal case documenting ‘systematic and unprecedented cruelty’ with echoes of Adolf Eichmann trial
‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7
“That day, I became an animal,” she said. “I was emotionally detached, sharp, just the adrenaline of survival. I looked at all this as if I was...
Responding to monstrous acts: Where is the outrage to mass rapes? Melinda Katz writes
Rape and sexual violence are abhorrent in any circumstance and must be universally condemned without conditions, no matter what side of any conflict...
RED CROSS JEW HATE?? Hostage Sues ‘Humanitarian Group’ for Ignoring Jewish Captives
Raz Ben Ami, a 57-year-old German-Israeli hostage, has initiated legal proceedings against the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),...
Hamas says no hostage negotiations unless fighting in Gaza stops; Israel: No chance
Terror group says it won’t take part in talks as it sends Ismail Haniyeh to Cairo; Herzog to French official: Israel has ‘made it clear it is...
Israeli Military Uncovers New Evidence About Hostage Deaths in Gaza
Israel’s military has been quick in disclosing details of the fatal shooting of the three hostages, who were unarmed and bearing a makeshift white...
‘We know they were raped in Hamas captivity’: Chilling details of what hostages faced
But sexual assault appears not to have been confined to Oct. 7. Two Israeli doctors, who have been treating released hostages, and an Israeli...
Zionist Arab puts hostage photos, Israeli flag outside Rashida Tlaib’s office
He stood in front of the congresswoman’s office and called her antisemitic because Tlaib “refused to condemn the terrorist organization Hamas…and...
Tanzanian national taken hostage by Hamas confirmed dead
A Tanzanian national who had been missing since being taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7 has been confirmed dead, Tanzania’s Ministry of Foreign...
Hamas survivor refutes progressives downplaying terrorists’ sexual violence
‘I heard the testimony directly from girls and heard things second hand,’ the survivor said
Hamas sexual violence ‘beyond anything I’ve ever seen,’ says Blinken
“I don’t know why countries, leaders, international organizations were so slow to focus on this, to bring it to people’s attention,” Blinken...
Freed Bedouin hostage said Hamas kidnapped family ‘even though we are Arabs’
Bilal Ziyadne, 18, a Bedouin hostage freed along with his sister, Aisha, describes how Hamas kidnapped his family even though they were Arabs.
The Woman in the Hamas Video Is My Daughter
As a mother, I simply worry: Did my daughter’s captors give her a clean change of clothes, or is she still sitting in the same bloody sweatpants she...
What Is Hamas Hiding?
Israeli women still in Hamas custody are young, in their 20s and 30s, and Hamas members have raped and sexually assaulted them…Said a second senior...
Hamas Drugged Freed Hostages to Make Them ‘Look Happy,’ Israel’s Health Ministry Says
The Health Ministry representative added: “War crimes were also documented, the main of which was the lack of adequate medical treatment. There was...
State Dept. Reveals Horrific Reason Female Hostages Haven’t Been Released by Hamas
“Right now Hamas is refusing to release civilian women who should have been part of the agreement and it is that refusal by Hamas that has...
Gal Gadot Condemns Silence Over Hamas’ Sexual Violence: ‘The World Has Failed the Women of Oct. 7’
“I am beseeching all those who have done so much for women’s rights globally — from the UN, to the human rights community to please join in the...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: every American must care about the hostages
The children, the babies, the families, the mothers. Talk about their lives, talk about who they are, to make sure that the news media and the...
Four killed, 5 injured in Hamas-claimed terror shooting at Jerusalem bus stop
Three victims killed by terrorists, while fourth man was a civilian who fired at the shooters and was mistaken by other responders for one of the...
The World’s Feminists Need to Show Up for Israeli Victims
This is not overstating things—from our work as prosecutors, lawyers, and feminists, we understand what it takes to build a solid criminal case for...
Hostages Freed From Gaza Recount Violence, Hunger and Fear
Hostages who have returned to Israel in the past week have come home malnourished, ill, injured and bearing psychological wounds.
Here are the hostages released by Hamas and those remaining in Gaza
Estimates for the total number of hostages seized in the attack that left some 1,200 people dead in Israel have shifted over the course of the war....
Israeli ex-hostage says she confronted Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in Gaza tunnel
“Sinwar was with us three to four days after we arrived,” Lifshitz told the Hebrew-language Davar newspaper. “I asked him how he...
First on CNN: Father describes how his young daughter Emily Hand survived Hamas captivity
“She didn’t want any comfort, I guess she’s forgotten how, to be comforted.” Father of 9 year old child details the visible...
As Hamas Releases More Hostages, Longer Cease-Fire Appears Possible
A third group of Gaza Strip hostages, including a 4-year-old American-Israeli citizen whose parents were killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas raids on Israel,...
Hamas terrorists admit taking hostages to Shifa Hospital
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) released footage on Nov. 27 of 2 Hamas terrorists (Adham Hawwas and Ismail Hawwas) explaining to interrogators...
Investigating Hamas Using Rape as a weapon of war
The first indications of possible sexual violence came as early as Oct. 7..Footage showed several women stripped of their clothing. One video showed...
The global gaming community is mobilizing to return the kidnapped
A video produced by the initiative of the information headquarters of the Civil Defense – Brothers of Arms, with the cooperation of workers...
Israel and Hamas Agree to Cease-Fire in Exchange for Hostage Release
The agreement calls for a pause in the fighting and for Hamas to free 50 of the captives it seized in its Oct. 7 raid on Israel. As reported in the...
Interview with a hostage’s mother and an ex-hostage
Interview with Maayan Sherman, who talks about her kidnapped son, Ron Sherman, and David Rohde, an ex hostage of the Taliban See the full...
‘Bring them home’: UK Sun front page shows faces of 32 children in Hamas captivity
Prominent British tabloid leads with photographs of young hostages, says their abduction shows why Israel must defeat terror group A leading...
What is Known About Israeli Hostages Taken by Hamas
The death toll of the unprovoked attack on Israel by the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist group on Saturday continues to rise with over 1,400 Israelis...
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‘Significant progress’ on Qatar-led negotiations to release hostages from Hamas but issues remain
There has been “significant progress” on negotiations to release hostages held by Hamas but there are issues still remaining, diplomatic sources...
I watched Hamas unleash hell
The footage bore testament to an ancient hatred. A handsome man in his 20s in a military uniform zips past me on a motorised scooter. A woman with a...
A Record of Pure, Predatory Sadism
Officials in Israel screened footage of the Hamas attack for the press: “What we shared with you, you should know it,” one official said. ...
Israeli laptop warriors fight for hostages taken by Hamas as American father of teenage captive describes his ‘living hell’
The last time Ruby Chen heard from his 19-year-old son Itay was a 6:40am message saying his military base was under rocket attack. His father was...
‘Mum it’s Daria…dad has been murdered’
Mother shares heartbreaking messages from her children after their father was gunned down in front of them by Hamas terrorists who stormed his home...
“Screams Before Silence”: A Documentary Sheds Light on Hamas Rape of Women During October 7 Attacks
On October 7, a series of brutal attacks on Israeli towns and the Nova Music Festival left a dark mark, characterized by horrific acts of sexual...