LONDON: Arbel Yehoud is achingly close to freedom, but her face is a study of shadow and terror. She is dwarfed by dozens of masked Hamas fighters — and beyond them, a heaving mob of chanting men who ...

The visuals out of Israel and Gaza during recent hostage-for-prisoner swaps were part of a choreographed battle of optics ...

Many hostage families have accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war for his own political survival.