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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

Nir Oz

Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen with his wife Avital aboard an IDF helicopter en route to the hospital soon after his release from 498 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, February 15, 2025. The whiteboard message refers to the then-73 hostages still held in Gaza, and urges 'return all of them to us.' (IDF)
February 25, 2025, 8:47 am
Ex-hostage urges Netanyahu to set politics aside and finally visit ravaged Nir Oz
‘I will show you blood-soaked places and burnt homes,’ Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen, who was freed on February 15, tells prime minister
By ToI Staff
This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shiri Bibas, who was abducted and taken to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)
February 22, 2025, 5:39 am
Shiri Bibas’s body returned to Israel; officials assess she was ‘brutally’ murdered with sons in Gaza
Announcement comes after Hamas finally delivers body overnight, a day after her 2 young sons were determined to have been murdered in cold blood by terrorists in Strip
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Israeli hostages released on January 30, 2025 (from left): Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, Gadi Mozes (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar, AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
January 30, 2025, 1:56 pm
Arbel Yehoud, Gadi Mozes, 5 Thais, freed amid mayhem in Khan Younis; Agam Berger released
Yehoud, 29, and Mozes, 80, forced to walk through mob with gunmen in lengthy, chaotic handover at which the 5 Thais also freed; Netanyahu denounces ‘unimaginable cruelty’
By Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro and Elana Kirsh
Alex Dancyg (Courtesy)
January 8, 2025, 9:42 pm
Alex Dancyg, 75: Renowned Holocaust educator was ‘wise and witty’
Kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, slain in Gaza in Feb. 2024 and his body recovered by IDF in Aug. 2024
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Adina Moshe speaking during an interview on Channel 12, July 26, 2024. (Screenshot)
July 27, 2024, 12:24 am
Ex-hostage: Slain captive said Netanyahu won’t work to free us because we’re leftists
Adina Moshe says Chaim Peri told her in Gaza tunnel they weren’t priority for PM; says while she was protesting with other ex-captives, a man yelled ‘whores, shame they freed you’
By ToI Staff
A group of Israelis on an educational tour visit a house that was torched by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attack on Israel in Kibbutz Nir Oz, on June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
July 21, 2024, 8:45 am
IDF probe finds it failed to properly respond to Oct. 7 Nir Oz invasion – report
Forces reportedly headed toward southern community in multiple instances, battled with terrorists, were then redirected elsewhere before entering kibbutz
By ToI Staff
A composite image showing Tamar Metzger (left) and Osnat Peri in interviews, on June 4, 2024. (Kan/Channel 12 screenshots: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 4, 2024, 11:45 pm
Widows of 2 hostages confirmed killed in Gaza pan government’s policy on captives
Chaim Peri’s wife says family very angry over ‘abandonment of hostages’; Yoram Metzger’s widow says she doesn’t know what she would say to Netanyahu, who has ‘no compassion’
By ToI Staff
Nurse Nili Margalit was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from Kibbutz Nir Oz and freed on November 30, 2023. (Courtesy)
December 10, 2023, 11:41 am
Nurse who treated elderly while in captivity says hostages in ‘impossible conditions’
Nili Margalit says she was in Gaza with a group of abductees as old as 86, some whom have serious medical issues like failing kidneys, with little oxygen or food
By ToI Staff
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