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Kibbutz Nir Oz

Residents inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza city, July 18, 2026. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
July 21, 2026, 2:11 pm
IDF strikes kill 2 Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on Oct. 7, held hostages
Saturday strike said to have killed Nukhba commander who held captives, including Emily Damari, who says ‘monster’ is now burning in hell; Sunday strike killed terrorist who took hostages from Nir Oz
By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
President Isaac Herzog speaks at the wedding of former Gaza hostages Sasha Troufanov and Sapir Cohen, July 5, 2026. (President Isaac Herzog/X)
July 6, 2026, 8:09 am
‘Emotional’: Ex-hostages Sasha Troufanov and Sapir Cohen are married
Wedding attended by several former hostages, including Rom Braslavski, who was held in PIJ captivity with Troufanov; President Isaac Herzog, first lady, join the ceremony
By ToI Staff
A new neighborhood in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Gaza border, in southern Israel. (Kibbutz Be'eri)
July 1, 2026, 5:48 pm
Gaza border communities attract 5,000 new residents amid post-Oct. 7 rehabilitation
With 92% of Kibbutz Kissufim residents returning this week, Tekuma Directorate marks 1,000 days since deadly Hamas invasion, says over 1,000 projects completed across region
By Sue Surkes
Former hostage Gadi Mozes releases doves into the Kibbutz NIr Oz fields as a sign of peace during the May 22, 2026 Shavuot holiday celebrations. (Courtesy)
May 26, 2026, 5:21 pm
Gaza border kibbutzim mark first Shavuot without hostages
Nir Oz, Nahal Oz and Be’eri share images and moments of celebration from the harvest holiday festivities
By Jessica Steinberg
A birthday party on May 16, 2026 in memory of Johnny Siman Tov, who was killed on October 7, 2023 in Kibbutz Nir Oz alongside his wife and three young children (Courtesy)
May 18, 2026, 9:24 am
Nir Oz marks birthday of Johnny Siman Tov, killed on October 7
Kibbutz friends, neighbors and family members celebrate together in Karmei Gat
By Jessica Steinberg
Released hostage Ariel Cunio and former hostage Arbel Yehoud reunited on October 13, 2025 (Courtesy Hostages Forum)
February 15, 2026, 8:51 pm
Former hostage couple dreams of space (travel) and time to recover and rebuild their home
Launching crowdfunding campaign as they work their way back to life, Ariel Cunio and Arbel Yehoud say they’re learning to breathe again after horrors of lengthy solitary captivities
By Jessica Steinberg
Released hostages Ariel Cunio (L) and Arbel Yehoud speak in an interview with Channel 12 news broadcast on February 13, 2026 (Screencapture)
February 14, 2026, 12:48 pm
Ex-hostage reveals she tried to kill herself in Gaza, says view of protests saved her
Arbel Yehoud and Ariel Cunio detail dire conditions in solitary captivity, decribe how terrorists passed letters between them, allowing for brief communication
By ToI Staff
Former hostage David Cunio speaks to Channel 12, in an interview aired on January 12, 2026. (Channel 12 screenshot)
January 13, 2026, 3:13 am
Freed hostage David Cunio says he weighed suicide by overdosing during captivity
In interview, former captive says for a long period, he lived off of 250ml of water and half a pita a day; walked 20km through tunnel to flee fighting while in Gaza
By ToI Staff
Sgt. (res.) Dana Silberman Sitton, sister of murdered captive Shiri Bibas, lights a Hanukkah menorah that survived the attack on her parents' Kibbutz Nir Oz home, in Gaza on December 21, 2025. (Courtesy IDF)
December 23, 2025, 4:34 pm
Shiri Bibas’s sister lights parents’ menorah while on reserve duty in Gaza
Dana Silberman Sitton, whose parents, sister and young nephews were killed by Gazan terrorists on and after October 7, looks for the light on Hanukkah
By Jessica Steinberg
Former hostage Gadi Mozes speaks with Channel 12 on the new rosemary fields of Kibbutz Nir Oz, in an interview broadcast November 28, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
November 29, 2025, 1:53 pm
Ex-hostage Gadi Mozes finds victory in return to Kibbutz Nir Oz’s newly planted fields
But the oldest surviving hostage feels betrayed by government ministers, who have not contacted him in the 10 months since he was freed and continue to oppose Oct. 7 state probe
By ToI Staff
The 'footprints' of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas in the center of a new memorial at Kibbutz Tzeelim, where Yarden Bibas grew up. The mother and two young boys were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, and subsequently murdered in captivity. (Talia Ben Harush)
November 18, 2025, 2:15 pm
Memorial to Shiri Bibas and her sons erected at kibbutz where husband Yarden grew up
Zvika Pasternak’s somber work comprises footprints surrounded by circles; ‘Footprints usually represent a route,’ says the artist. ‘Here, they are trapped, frozen in time’
By Sue Surkes
Sylvia Cunio, center, stands flanked by Sharon Alony Cunio (R) and Arbel Yehoud (L) at Sheba Medical Center, on October 15, 2025, after the release of her sons David and Ariel Cunio from Hamas captivity days earlier. (Alon Gilboa/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
November 8, 2025, 8:04 am
Hostages’ mom Sylvia Cunio says ‘unreal joy’ to have sons home, but won’t return to Nir Oz
Longtime advocate speaks of how sons David and Ariel have changed, and of her deep mourning for all those lost from her community
By Jessica Steinberg
President Isaac Herzog pays tribute to slain hostage Amiram Cooper at his funeral in Nir Oz on November 2, 2025. (Uriel Even-Sapir/ Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
November 2, 2025, 8:07 pm
Mourners lay slain hostages Amiram Cooper, Sahar Baruch to rest in southern Israel
‘I miss you so much,’ says Cooper’s wife, recalls she first heard about him as ‘a guy who wrote poems and whistled melodies’; Baruch’s mother remembers son as ‘a traveler, chess player, kayaker, scholar, nerd’
By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg
Pictures of victims hang on the outer wall of a Kibbutz Nir Oz home gutted in the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, as seen in the Gaza border community on October 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 31, 2025, 2:14 pm
Return of last Nir Oz hostage’s remains brings closure to ‘locus of disaster’
Amiram Cooper, 84, is 76th and final member of hard-hit Gaza border kibbutz to be repatriated; community vows to support families of 11 other slain hostages still held in Strip
By ToI Staff
Arie Zalmanowicz (Courtesy)
October 24, 2025, 4:03 pm
In Nir Oz, hundreds bid farewell to slain hostage and kibbutz founder Arie Zalmanowicz
Son says community was father’s ‘entire essence and identity,’ would want to see wheat grow there again; opposition lawmakers, former hostages attend funeral
By ToI Staff
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