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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 594

Matan Zangauker

Hostage Matan Zangauker speaks in a Hamas propaganda video issued on December 7, 2024. (Screenshot: Telegram)
May 20, 2025, 11:52 pm
Hostage Matan Zangauker struggling to stand, suffering severe health issues – report
According to reported testimony from ex-hostage Edan Alexander, Zangauker suffers from muscular atrophy, is held in cages and has been severely tortured
By ToI Staff
Matan Zangauker was taken captive by Hamas terrorists to Gaza, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
May 19, 2025, 11:27 pm
Matan Zangauker’s mother says troops found note written by son in Gaza tunnel
Report says Einav Zangauker identified hostage son’s handwriting, which detailed his condition as ‘good,’ described him as ‘farmer’; note found in November with bottles of his urine
By ToI Staff
Matan Zangauker was taken captive by Hamas terrorists to Gaza on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
May 16, 2025, 5:10 pm
Matan Zangauker’s mother says Edan Alexander provided sign of life from son
Hostages and Missing Families Forum decries ‘missed opportunity of the century’ with hostage deal not advanced during Trump’s Mideast tour
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting of his Religious Zionist party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
April 21, 2025, 1:31 pm
Smotrich says returning hostages ‘not the most important thing,’ sparking fierce backlash
Hostages’ families say ‘history will remember’ far-right minister; top Haredi coalition lawmaker disputes his statement, and opposition politicians say he’s ‘sacrificing’ captives
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
Lishay Lavi-Miran, whose husband Omri Miran is held hostage, shouts to him near the Israeli border with Gaza, April 20, 2025 (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
April 20, 2025, 1:52 pm
‘Don’t lose hope’: Families of hostages shout across Gaza border to loved ones
Elkana Bohbot’s uncle calls Hamas propaganda film of nephew ‘obscene’; Yehuda Cohen, whose son Nimrod is also held in captivity, urges Trump to ‘force Netanyahu to end this bloody war’
By ToI Staff
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