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Thursday, October 26, 2023
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Two children held hostage in Gaza are Hungarian citizens, Budapest says
Young men look at photos of Israelis missing and held hostage in Gaza, displayed on a wall in Tel Aviv, on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Hungary’s foreign ministry says two Israeli-Hungarian children are among the more than 200 hostages held by the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip.
The children, both dual Hungarian citizens, are 15 and 8 years old, and were taken from the home of their father in a kibbutz near the border with Gaza during Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel.
That’s according to an interview with the children’s mother by the Hungarian weekly magazine Hetek. A spokesman for the ministry confirmed to the magazine that the children were being held in Gaza, and said that the ministry was in contact with their mother.
