An American-Israeli mother detailed her harrowing experience of how she and her daughter were captured by Hamas militants and held as hostages for two weeks before being released last year. Judith Raanan and her now 18-year-old daughter, Natalie Raanan, were the first hostages to be released by Hamas after the militant group stormed southern Israel on Oct. […]
ROME (AP) — Italy’s foreign minister was on hand Tuesday for the arrival in Rome of an Italian family of three just hours after their release from two years of captivity in the African nation of Mali. The family, identified as Rocco Langone, his wife Maria Caivano and an adult son, Giovanni Langone, were kidnapped […]
There are 28,000 Ukrainian citizens in Russian captivity, Ukraine’s Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets told reporters at the “Ukraine. Year 2024” forum on Feb. 25. The captives are spread across Russia and the occupied territories, according to Lubinets. Many are religious figures, journalists, NGO workers, and representatives from local governments, he said. “Some of them go a […]
Most of the Ukrainian military have left Avdiivka as of Saturday evening, and the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade has no reports of large-scale captivity of their soldiers. Source: Oleksandr Borodin, Press officer of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on air of the Ukrainska Pravda project UP.Summary; 3rd Separate Assault […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military said it rescued two hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip early Monday, marking a small but symbolically significant success in its quest to bring home over 100 captives believed to be held by the Hamas militant group. The two men were rescued from a residential building […]
Ukraine has brought back another 100 Ukrainians from Russian captivity in the most recent prisoner swap with Russia. Source: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on social media; Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War on Telegram Quote from Zelenskyy: “Another 100 Ukrainians are back home, in Ukraine. National guardsmen, border guards and soldiers from […]
Lieutenant Colonel Denys ‘Redis’ Prokopenko, Commander of the Azov 12th Special Operations Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, has said that over 900 Azov fighters who defended Mariupol in spring 2022 remain in Russian captivity. He has urged relevant officials and agencies to make every effort to free them. Source: Denys Prokopenko on Facebook […]
Ukraine has managed to bring back home 207 Ukrainians, both servicemen and civilians, from Russian captivity. Source: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on social media Quote: “Our people are back home. 207 guys. We are bringing them back no matter what. We remember everyone who is in captivity. Both servicemen and civilians. We have to bring […]
Josef Fritzl, an Austrian man who held his daughter captive in his basement as a sex slave for 24 years, fathering seven of her children, was seen smirking Thursday after a court ruled that he could be transferred from a psychiatric ward to a regular prison. Fritzl’s move to a regular prison reportedly marks the […]
KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — Standing in the ruins of her home in the Nir Oz farming village on the Gaza border, Sharon Alony Cunio gazed at the distant skyline of Khan Younis, the Palestinian city where Hamas militants dragged her more than three months ago. Her husband, David, remains captive in Gaza. He’s […]
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian Islamist group Hamas aired a new video on Monday showing what it said were the bodies of two Israeli hostages, and Israel’s military said that while it was examining the footage, there was serious concern regarding the hostages’ fate. In the video, 26-year-old university student Noa Argamani, seemingly reading a script […]
January 14th will mark 100 days since approximately 240 hostages were abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival. Among the hostages was Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who is still being held captive. Each day since her son was taken into captivity, Rachel Goldberg has written the number of days that have passed since he was taken […]