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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Karina Ariev

Israelis protest for a hostage deal outside the home of Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana in Tel Aviv on March 3, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 8, 2025, 4:48 pm
Rallies for hostages and against renewed judicial overhaul efforts begin in Tel Aviv
Demonstrators demand Israel extend ceasefire to save more captives; anti-overhaul movement reawakened by justice minister’s plan to oust attorney general
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Liri Albag is interviewed on Channel 12 on March 5, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
March 8, 2025, 2:15 pm
Liri Albag recalls Gaza ‘hell,’ pain of knowing those against hostage deal would ‘sacrifice’ her
Freed hostage, kidnapped on October 7 while serving as a surveillance soldier, says she set boundaries between her and her captors; modestly dismisses accounts of her bravery
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) meets with former hostage soldiers (from left) Naama Levy, Agam Berger, Liri Albag, and Karina Ariev, February 14, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 14, 2025, 3:49 pm
IDF chief apologizes to freed surveillance soldiers for failing them on and before Oct. 7
Agam Berger, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev tell Halevi of attack on Nahal Oz post, 15 months of captivity; chief of staff: ‘It was wrong to have not taken [your warnings] seriously’
By Emanuel Fabian
(L-R) Captivity survivors Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Liri Albag and Daniella Gilboa watch a concert in their honor at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, February 4, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 14, 2025, 12:51 pm
Hamas made surveillance troops watch torture videos of male hostages, says mother
Freed hostages’ mothers say daughters kept diaries during 477 days in captivity; one says she would’ve looked like emaciated captives released last week had she been set free earlier
By ToI Staff
The family of released hostage Agam Berger, with Agam on the far left, February 2025 (Courtesy)
February 13, 2025, 8:05 pm
Released hostage Karina Ariev’s sister says ex-soldier focused on Oct. 7 failure
Sasha Ariev talks about Karina’s desire to commemorate her friends killed at Nahal Oz, as Shlomi Berger, father of released hostage Agam talks about the desire for normalcy
By Jessica Steinberg
Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside of Sderot, February 8, 2025. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)
February 9, 2025, 12:22 am
Hostages’ families call for all-in-one release after 3 captives return emaciated
Speakers at weekly protests pan premier for staying abroad as captives are freed, urge Trump and his envoy to save captives from the ‘Auschwitz conditions’ that Hamas holds them in
By Noam Lehmann
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