The members of the information delegation initiated by the Ministry of Diaspora and in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the relatives of the abductees held captive by Hamas, met in Tokyo with the Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa.
Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and a delegation of families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza met with the President of Paraguay, Santiago Pena. The delegation is in Paraguay as part of a worldwide tour to keep governments informed on the plight of the hostages.
Several family members of US citizens believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, weren't invited to the Hanukkah reception at the White House on Monday night, as per the father of a 19-year-old missing Israeli American, CNN reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came down heavily on international human rights organisations, women's groups and the UN for failing to speak out about the rapes and other atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli women.
Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Health Ministry's medical division, testified to the Knesset Health Committee that the captives were given a tranquilizer which she identified as Clonazepam sometime before they were handed over to Red Cross custody.
Amid the resumption of the ongoing war with terror group Hamas, following a temporary hold on hostilities to facilitate the release of hostages in Gaza, an Israeli activist group published a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, calling on the UN and the world to recognise the se
The military in the United Kingdom (UK) will operate surveillance flights over Gaza to help locate captives held by Hamas, Al Jazeera reported quoting the British Ministry of Defence.
As Israel announced a one-day extension in the Israel-Hamas truce deal, the Hamas terror group released six more Israeli hostages to Egypt via the Rafah crossing on Thursday night.
The Israel Defense Forces said that based on information it has received from the Red Cross, two Israeli hostages have been transferred to Red Cross custody and on their way to Israeli soil.