Hamas freed six hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of the fragile ceasefire agreement with Israel. The first two men released were identified as Tal ...

Former Hamas hostage Avera Mengistu, who was freed in February, attended Sigd prayers in Jerusalem for the first time.

Mengistu was held in terror captivity in the Gaza Strip for almost 11 years before being released in February. He had been hospitalized since his release. Former ...

Six hostages were released from Hamas captivity Saturday, as Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, and Eliya Cohen returned to Israel after 505 days, and Avera Mengistu and Hisham Al-Sayed returned ...

Hamas on Saturday released all six remaining living Israeli hostages promised under the first stage of the ongoing cease-fire deal — as one heartbroken family finally received the remains of a mother ...

Released hostage Avera Mengistu reacts during the reunion with his family at Ichilov Hospital, in Tel Aviv JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Among the six hostages freed by Hamas on Saturday in return for ...

Amidst the orchestrated, ceremonial releases of the October 7th Israeli hostages from Gaza during the 42-day ceasefire, we also witnessed the freeing of Avera Mengistu, an Ethiopian-Israeli held ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Among the six hostages freed by Hamas on Saturday in return for Palestinian prisoners were an Israeli Bedouin and an Ethiopian-born man who had been in Gaza for years before the ...