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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

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The 24 hostages presumed to be alive who are still held by Hamas: Top row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Edan Alexander, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from left: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Bipin Joshi, Rom Braslavski, Ziv Berman, Gali Berman. Third row, from left: Omri Miran, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Bottom row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Tamir Nimrodi, Pinta Nattapong. (Hostages Families Forum)
The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza
By ToI Staff and JTA
Two dozen men — fathers, soldiers, security guards, tech workers, dreamers, dancers and more — are still captive after over 500 days, along with the bodies of 35 others
Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 24, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90); US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP); Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the State Department in Washington, April 22, 2025. (Oliver Contreras/AFP)
Netanyahu said to have urged Trump not to listen to Qatari PM’s hostage deal offers
By ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Biden officials vent frustrations in dealing with Netanyahu, decry missed chance of Saudi deal
By Jacob Magid
Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon speaks during an anti-government protest at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, April 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Ex-Shin Bet chief calls for nonviolent revolt at weekly anti-government rally
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Former hostages hold a press conference in Tel Aviv, April 28, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
April 28, 2025, 11:25 pm
‘Medieval torture’: Former hostages plead with Trump to free remaining captives
Freed hostages hold English-language presser addressed to US president, recalling brutality, inhumanity, torture and agony of Hamas captivity, beg for him to restart serious truce talks
By ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
April 28, 2025, 1:10 pm
Biden officials vent frustrations in dealing with Netanyahu, decry missed chance of Saudi deal
In interviews with Israeli TV, 9 senior officials from previous US administration speak with unprecedented candor; ex-envoy Shapiro: Saudi deal would have required Israeli election or coalition shuffle
By Jacob Magid
Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 24, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90); US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP); Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the State Department in Washington, April 22, 2025. (Oliver Contreras/AFP)
April 27, 2025, 11:37 pm
Netanyahu said to have urged Trump not to listen to Qatari PM’s hostage deal offers
Report says PM told US president in call last week that Qatari leader would present ‘various and strange proposals’ from Hamas during DC visit, implored Trump not to accept them
By ToI Staff
Former Hamas hostages present their art exhibition at Ben Gurion Airport, April 27, 2025. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
April 27, 2025, 6:19 pm
Paintings by ex-hostages featured in new art exhibit at Ben Gurion Airport
11 former captives use art workshop to process emotions of captivity and independence; works shown at airport for a week, will be moved to NYC for Independence Day event
By ToI Staff
Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon speaks during an anti-government protest at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, April 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 27, 2025, 3:31 am
Ex-Shin Bet chief calls for nonviolent revolt at weekly anti-government rally
Thousands gather in Tel Aviv as families of hostages make impassioned plea to bring their loved ones home ahead of upcoming Memorial Day, slam apathy of coalition lawmakers
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Mossad chief David Barnea attends a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 25, 2025, 2:55 am
Mossad head travels to Doha for meeting with Qatari PM on hostage deal efforts
Trip signals David Barnea’s return to ceasefire talks after he was replaced as top negotiator by Netanyahu confidant Dermer, who hasn’t secured release of any more captives
By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian
A still image of a Hamas propaganda video released on April 23, 2025, showing hostage Omri Miran. (Screenshot)
April 24, 2025, 9:55 pm
‘Do everything’: In Hamas propaganda clip, hostage Omri Miran begs to return home
Captive father of 2, kidnapped from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, appeals to Trump, saying president is ‘probably the only person in the world strong enough’ to make another deal
By ToI Staff
Yael (R) and Adi Alexander, parents of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, who is held in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists, walk back into the West Wing of the White House after talking to reporters on December 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
April 23, 2025, 7:58 am
Father of American-Israeli hostage urges Boehler’s return to negotiating table
Adi Alexander says closest Edan got to release from captivity was during talks Trump’s hostage envoy held with Hamas, which were abandoned following Israeli and GOP uproar
By Jacob Magid
Families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza hold a press conference at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 22, 2025, 9:53 pm
Hamas delegation heads to Cairo as Egypt takes mediation lead in hostage talks
Qatari newspaper echoes reporting by BBC and Times of Israel on new proposal for long-term ceasefire, with efforts to finalize deal before Trump visits region next month
By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies
A child looks into a weapon as Hamas gunmen take up a position ahead of handing over the bodies of four slain Israeli hostages, including a mother and her two children, to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
April 20, 2025, 6:21 pm
Hamas claims it won’t develop weapons, dig tunnels during long-term truce with Israel
In nonstarter for Israel, terror group is seeking comprehensive deal under which it would cede control of Gaza’s governance but would stop short of full disarmament
By Jacob Magid
Israeli hostage Elkana Bohbot in a Hamas propaganda video published on April 19, 2025.
April 19, 2025, 9:40 pm
In third Hamas video, Elkana Bohbot pleads for his release, says he fears for his life
Looking gaunt and distraught, Bohbot notes petitions calling to free the captives even at cost of ending war, says signatories ‘care more about their citizens than government does’
By ToI Staff
Members of the Gvura (Heroism) Forum, bereaved families and activists hold a press conference against a hostage deal with Hamas in Jerusalem, January 12, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 18, 2025, 4:41 pm
Some 1,000 relatives of fallen soldiers said to sign letter in support of Gaza fighting
Petition drafted by right-wing organization comes after recent wave of letters by various groups urging deal for the return of all hostages even at cost of ending war
By ToI Staff
An Israir flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
April 17, 2025, 10:39 pm
Civil pilots, ex-soldiers and bereaved families join public calls for hostage deal
‘Return all the hostages even at the cost of ending the war. Every day that passes endangers their lives,’ write some 300 Israeli pilots, joining trend started by Air Force members
By ToI Staff
US hostage envoy Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony at the State Department in Washington on March 6, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)
April 17, 2025, 8:28 am
US envoy: I’m sure Edan Alexander is in a decent place; we’ll come for Hamas if he’s harmed
Adam Boehler says he could resume direct talks with Hamas, after they fell apart in March amid Israeli pushback; claims offer he made in those talks was coordinated with Jerusalem
By Jacob Magid
File: Former US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Edan Alexander, a hostage held by Hamas, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, October 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
April 16, 2025, 5:46 am
Hostage’s father to PM: How do you plan to free the last captive without ending the war?
Adi Alexander wonders whether Trump, who campaigned on ending the Gaza war, will lose patience as the conflict drags on without the release of additional hostages
By Jacob Magid
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