Hostages

Hostages

An image grab from a handout video released by the Hamas Media Office shows members of its Al-Qassam Brigades leading hostages over to officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on November 24, 2023, ahead of their transfer to Israel. AFP PHOTO / HO / HAMAS MEDIA OFFICE

The psychological effect of being held hostage

Some struggle afterwards, such as French journalist Brice Fleutiaux, who committed suicide in 2001 shortly after being released from captivity in Chechnya.

Israeli security forces stand next to ambulances on stand by outside the helipad of Tel Aviv’s Schneider medical centre, amid preparations for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners later in the day. AFP

4-day truce begins; Israeli hostages handed over at border: Egyptian sources

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, during his visit to Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel November 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool

Blinken urges humanitarian pause; Netanyahu tells him not without hostages' release

Varda Ben Baruch, the grandmother of Edan Alexander, 19, an Israeli army volunteer kidnapped by Hamas, attends a special Kabbalat Shabbat ceremony with families of other hostages, in Herzliya, Israel October 27, 2023. Photo Reuters

'Anxiety' racks Israeli hostage families as army assaults Gaza

From left to right: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Putin's Special Envoy to the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov, and Hamas head of international relations Mousa Abu Marzouk, during a trilateral meeting in Moscow on October 26, 2023. Photo Times of Israel (Hamas Telegram channel)

Hamas says trying to find 8 Russian-Israeli hostages to free them – Reports