She was said to be in stable condition on Sunday after being freed from the Gaza Strip. "Yesterday, I was finally able to give Emily the hug that I have been dreaming of," her mother Mandy Damari ...

Rose Gray may seem to have come out of nowhere, but the 28-year-old Londoner has been trying to find her place in pop for more than a decade now. Hers is not an uncommon story – that of the very ...

"Thanks to the support and assistance of the Islamic Emirate and, by God's grace, I was freed," he said, referring to the Taliban's name for its government. The prisoner exchange was the result of ...

Freed Hamas hostage Aviva Siegel is desperate to see her husband Keith brought home alive more than 450 days after attackers abducted him on Oct. 7, 2023. Speaking to "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday ...

As two buses carrying Palestinian prisoners freed from an Israeli jail pulled up in the occupied West Bank town of Beitunia early on Monday, they were met with cheers, chants and honking horns.

Freed Israeli hostage Emily Damari is in “much better health” than her family feared, her mother said — even after two of her fingers were blown off by Hamas terrorists when she was taken ...

• Displaced Palestinians have started returning to their homes in Gaza after more than 15 months of war, with images emerging of the scale of the damage. Meanwhile, aid workers have warned of ...

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The pair were freed alongside Romi Gonen, 24, who was seized from the Nova music festival. Ms Gonen’s mother Meirav Leshem Gonen, and Yamit Ashkenazi, Ms Steinbrecher's sister, are also due to ...

The families of three Israeli hostages released on Sunday as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas have expressed their thanks to everyone involved in securing the release of their ...

A British-Israeli hostage who was shot in the hand by Hamas gunmen and spent 15 months in captivity was in much better health than expected, her mother said, after she was released back to her family ...