News that three high-profile hostages are expected to be released has brought excitement and trepidation to Israel on Friday ...

Reports say Bibas, Ofer Calderon were beaten, held in cages during early days of captivity; Keith Siegel says food was scarce ...

One of those released was 19 years old. Twelve of them were 18, seven of them were 17 and one was 15. This list of prisoners was published by Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned international news service.

TEL AVIV — On lampposts, in shop windows and on smartphone screens across Israel, the posters show a smiling, red-headed baby boy clutching a pink elephant. And now the country is bracing to learn ...

Yarden Bibas, an Israeli father who was kidnapped by Hamas along with his wife and two young children, has faced an ...

For Jews around the world, the fate of Kfir, Ariel, Shiri and Yarden Bibas has long been a matter of urgent concern.

Israel said it was investigating that ... older and ill hostages — and, if the Bibas boys are included, children as well — will be released over the initial 42 days. Israeli officials ...

near Israel’s borders with Lebanon and Syria. A warning siren sounded ahead of the incoming rocket, but without enough time for the children on the field to evacuate, according to reports in ...

The family of the youngest hostages held in Gaza have said they are “holding on to hope” they are still alive after Hamas ...