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Demonstrators gather with placards during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of hostages held captive since the October 7, 2023, attacks by Gazan Palestinian terrorists, outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, on April 5, 2025. (Hazem Bader / AFP)
April 14, 2025, 9:42 am
Ex-Mossad members, paratroopers, medics join call for hostage deal even if it ends war
3 former security service leaders join wave of statements started by pilots’ letter calling to prioritize captives over fighting: ‘Every day that passes puts their lives at risk’
By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton
Medication belonging to hostages found at Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, in a handout image published by the IDF on February 18, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 19, 2024, 10:49 am
Families sent meds for hostages, and for Gazan children, in EU aid shipment – report
Medicines were purchased in Germany and entered Strip from Egypt; relatives set up WhatsApp group to coordinate on October 8, with first known shipment made in mid-November
By ToI Staff
Workers and staff unload medical aid delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 9, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)
February 18, 2024, 9:13 am
Medicines for hostages found in Gaza hospital sent privately by families – report
Relatives said to have worked with European organizations to arrange a shipment of drugs for captives in November; no indication they ever reached intended recipients
By ToI Staff
Left to right: Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel)
August 25, 2017, 12:57 am
Official leading efforts to return captive Israelis in Gaza quits
Retired IDF colonel Lior Lotan steps down from role; family of slain soldier Hadar Goldin says Netanyahu has ‘forsaken’ them
By Raoul Wootliff
IDF soldiers Oron Shaul (left) and Hadar Goldin (right) (Flash90)
October 10, 2014, 9:47 am
Hamas indicates deal for soldiers’ bodies in the works
Official says Gaza group will demand ‘a price’ for information on whereabouts of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul’s remains
By ToI Staff
IDF soldiers Oron Shaul (left) and Hadar Goldin (right) (Flash90)
October 8, 2014, 10:45 am
PM appoints coordinator on deal for soldiers’ bodies
Lior Lotan, a retired IDF colonel, will oversee negotiations with Hamas to return remains of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, both killed in Gaza Strip
By Adiv Sterman
Families of the missing Iranian Jews meet with David Meidan on March 20, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy)
March 20, 2014, 8:24 pm
Mossad: 8 missing Iranian Jews were killed on way to Israel
After two decades of uncertainty, intelligence agency tells families their relatives were ‘caught and murdered as they sought to escape’
By Marissa Newman
Gershon Baskin (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
November 15, 2012, 4:50 pm
Israeli involved in talks with Hamas says Jabari supported long-term ceasefire
Gershon Baskin says that by killing Hamas military chief and launching wide operation, Israel has squandered its chance for calm in Gaza and destroyed its security coordination with Egypt
By Elhanan Miller
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz arrives at a press conference in the Knesset, July 23, 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
July 24, 2012, 1:11 pm
From hints to headlines
Israel’s papers gobble up innuendo, Shalit release deal had political underpinnings and Arab weddings in Lod are now live-fire free
By Ron Friedman
Social protesters in 2011 marking the anniversary of Gilad Shalit's capture. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
July 24, 2012, 11:26 am
Shalit negotiator says Israeli social protest movement was factor in swap deal
Egyptian post-revolution security services were even more important, doing their best to get Hamas agreement, says David Meidan
By Gabe Fisher
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