By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A nurse who was among scores of Israelis abducted to Gaza says she spent her captivity in an underground tunnel, treating elderly fellow hostages, some hard of sight or hearing, with meagre medical supplies for which she had to haggle with Hamas. Nili Margalit was repatriated in a November […]
Ukraine has brought back more than 200 of its military and civilians from Russian captivity. Source: President Zelenskyy on social media, PoW Coordination Headquarters; Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Quote: “Our people are home. Today, we brought back over 200 warriors and civilians from Russian captivity – soldiers, sergeants and officers. [They […]
Over 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) were returned from Russian captivity in the largest prisoner exchange since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of the Prisoners of War reported on Jan. 3. The previous prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia took place in August last year, after which, […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Maya Regev lay badly wounded in a nondescript house in Gaza, her leg mangled from a gunshot, under orders not to make a sound. The 21-year-old begged her captors to let her younger brother Itay, who was being held in a room nearby, join her while the bandages on her leg […]
An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian’s army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022.Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo Russia’s months-long siege and bombardment of Mariupol saw the city reduced to rubble. Interviews with two Ukrainians — a soldier and the mother of two soldiers — revealed scenes of intense combat. The […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli woman who recently returned from captivity in the Gaza Strip says she was groped by her Palestinian kidnapper and lived in constant fear throughout the weeks she was held hostage. Mia Schem, a 21-year-old dual citizen of Israel and France, was attending a music festival in southern Israel when Hamas […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tantrums, tears, temperature, toilet accidents. These travails of childhood are familiar to any parent. But for Doron Katz Asher, the daily whims of children took on a new, frightening dimension while in Hamas captivity with her two young daughters. If the girls cried, militants would bang on the door of […]
Twelve more hostages — 10 Israelis and two Thai nationals — were released from Hamas captivity on Tuesday in exchange for 30 Palestinian women and minors released from Israeli prisons. The swap comes as part of an extended truce between Israel and Hamas, which is set to expire at the end of Wednesday. “The Government […]
Ancient Egyptians kept sacred, revered baboons in captivity, a new study has revealed. Archeologists and historians already knew that Egyptians revered and mummified several species of animals including baboons. However it has not been clear whether, if at all, they were kept. A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE—lead by Wim Van Neer […]
Mia Leimberg, 17, one of the hostages freed by Hamas in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners during a week-long cease-fire in Israel’s war with the Palestinian militant group, emerged from captivity on Nov. 28 holding her small white dog Bella. The Israeli teenager told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday that Bella helped […]