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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Oded Lifshitz

From left to right: Freed hostages Aviva Siegel, Keith Siegel, Yarden Bibas, Iair Horn, Yocheved Lifshitz and Sasha Troufanov attend a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
‘They’re not just posters, they’re people’: Freed hostages urge deal to save those left behind
By Jessica Steinberg and Noam Lehmann
Families fear resumed war could be fatal for loved ones; Sasha Troufanov asks ‘why are we abandoning them’; Yarden Bibas say he’s ‘petrified’ for his friends; Noa Argamani pleads to save every soul
Poet and doctor Owen Lewis felt his latest poetry book 'barrel out of him' after the atrocities of October 7 (Courtesy Columbia News)
Columbia med school professor and poet reflects on October 7 grief
By Jessica Steinberg
From left to right: Freed hostages Aviva Siegel, Keith Siegel, Yarden Bibas, Iair Horn, Yocheved Lifshitz and Sasha Troufanov attend a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 18, 2025, 11:19 pm
‘They’re not just posters, they’re people’: Freed hostages urge deal to save those left behind
Families fear resumed war could be fatal for loved ones; Sasha Troufanov asks ‘why are we abandoning them’; Yarden Bibas say he’s ‘petrified’ for his friends; Noa Argamani pleads to save every soul
By Jessica Steinberg and Noam Lehmann
Poet and doctor Owen Lewis felt his latest poetry book 'barrel out of him' after the atrocities of October 7 (Courtesy Columbia News)
March 17, 2025, 8:03 am
Columbia med school professor and poet reflects on October 7 grief
In ‘A Prayer of Six Wings,’ psychiatrist Owen Lewis grapples with the traumas of the Hamas atrocities
By Jessica Steinberg
Former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz (right) and her son Arnon, at the funeral of her husband and his father, slain hostage Oded Lifshitz, at Kibbutz Nir Oz on February 25, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/The Hostages Families Forum Headquarters); inset: Oded Lifshitz (Amiram Oren)
February 25, 2025, 6:59 pm
‘We fought for peace, were attacked by those we helped’: Yocheved Lifshitz parts from Oded
Family, friends, neighbors and comrades bury Oded Lifshitz, 83, murdered in captivity in Gaza and brought home for burial in Kibbutz Nir Oz, which he helped establish
By Jessica Steinberg
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
This combination of pictures created on February 20, 2025 shows posters bearing the portraits of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas (C) and her two children Ariel (L) and Kfir (R), held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, set up on a square outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, on January 21, 2025 (AFP)
February 21, 2025, 11:43 am
Daily Briefing Feb. 21: Day 504 – Where is Shiri Bibas?
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman updates us on the identification process of the 4 bodies handed over by Hamas yesterday and mass bus bombing attempts. Stay tuned for the Friday Focus
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas (Courtesy)
February 21, 2025, 2:41 am
Remains ID’d of Oded Lifshitz, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, but other body is not the boys’ mom Shiri
IDF says forensic experts can find no match for fourth body handed over by Hamas, slams terror group for ‘very serious violation’ of hostage-ceasefire deal
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Oded (right) and Yocheved Lifshitz, in a cactus garden they planted outside their home, before October 7, 2023 (Amiram Oren)
February 20, 2025, 10:26 pm
Oded Lifshitz, hostage slain by Islamic Jihad, was journalist and peace activist
Lifshitz, among Nir Oz’s founders, defended expelled Bedouins, reported on infamous massacres of Palestinians by Israel-backed militias, and drove sick Gazans to Israeli hospitals
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian terrorists carry to the Red Cross one of four coffins said to hold a body of a slain Israeli hostage, in the southern Gaza Strip's Khan Younis, February 20, 2025. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 6:22 pm
UN human rights chief: Hamas ‘parading’ of hostages’ bodies is ‘abhorrent and cruel’
Volker Turk says terror group’s treatment of remains ‘flies in the face of international law’; Germany laments families being ‘exposed to Hamas’s limitless terror’ during handover
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian terrorists carry to the Red Cross one of four coffins said to hold a body of a slain Israeli hostage, in the southern Gaza Strip's Khan Younis, February 20, 2025. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 2:04 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 20: Day 503 – In grotesque ‘ceremony,’ Hamas hands over 4 coffins
As process of identifying the received remains goes on, editor David Horovitz speaks to this terrible moment for an Israel that long feared the worst for 4 Kibbutz Nir Oz hostages
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
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