Category: hostages
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Israel receives names of three hostages to be freed today
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The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that it has obtained the names of the three Israeli hostages that Hamas is scheduled to release today under the temporary ceasefire agreement reached last week that took effect this morning. Shahav Gonen, the sister of Romi Gonen (24 years old), who was kidnapped in…
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‘Yen is Backed By Hostages’
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A famous Japanese cryptocurrency entrepreneur responded to his Japanese colleagues who see Bitcoin as a currency “not backed by anything of value.” Crypto entrepreneur Koji Higashi argued that those people who still have a pessimistic view of Bitcoin fail to realize that the Japanese yen is “backed by hostages.” Controversial…
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Israeli businessman offers Gazans $100,000 reward for hostages
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Former SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum offered the reward to anyone who would hand over a live Israeli hostage from Gaza. “This is a message to the good people of Gaza. I have an offer for you,” is how former SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum introduced himself in a video he posted…
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Eyal Waldman: You cannot make hostages a political issue
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After the local labor court ordered the general strike to end today, Eyal Waldman, one of the founders of the Business Forum and the Emergency Forum for the Release of Hostages, has no plans to stop his activity. “We will make decisions on a daily basis about how to proceed,…
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IDF: Hostages were murdered shortly before being found
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Initial investigations by the Israel Defense Forces into the deaths of six Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip indicate that they were killed shortly after the IDF located them, Channel 12 News reported. Last night, the IDF retrieved the bodies of the six from a tunnel in…
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Hamas accepts US proposal on talks over Israeli hostages, Hamas source says By Reuters
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By Samia Nakhoul, Muhammad Al Gebaly and Nidal al-Mughrabi DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas has accepted a U.S. proposal to begin talks on the release of Israeli hostages, including soldiers and men, 16 days into the first phase of a deal aimed at ending the Gaza war, a senior Hamas source…
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Trump cites Supreme Court ruling in calling for Jan. 6 ‘hostages’ to be freed By Reuters
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Written by Tim Reid CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his supporters who were prosecuted for their actions in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 should be released, citing a Supreme Court ruling in favor of a man who appealed…
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Israeli forces rescue four hostages from Gaza Strip
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This morning, in a complex joint operation carried out by the Israeli army, the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet) and the Israeli police’s anti-terrorism unit, four Israeli hostages were freed from the Gaza Strip. The four are Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir (21), Andrei Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv…