Hostage Deal

Almost three years after Oct. 7, 'Hostages Square' becomes official name of Tel Aviv Museum plaza

Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai said, "The square became a center of solidarity, mutual responsibility, and an uncompromising demand: Bring them, all of them, home."

The new sign, officially renaming the plaza to Hostages Square.
A photograph from the ‘Seeing Home’ exhibition at Kibbutz Nirim.

Nirim is thriving, but Oct. 7 still haunts its present – opinion

Rimon Buchshtab-Kirscht speaks to a Hamas terrorist as she is being released to the Red Cross in Gaza, November 28, 2023.

'If you need to stab a terrorist, you do': What we can learn from a former hostage - editorial

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal bless the former hostages under huppah

Mazal tov! Former Gaza hostages Sapir Cohen, Sasha Troufanov marry in heartfelt ceremony


Gaza's ticking clock: Hamas illustrating it can reorganize itself despite war setbacks - analysis

Each day that goes by is a day that Hamas has to reconstitute itself and assert control.

Palestinian terrorists stand guard on the day that hostages held in Gaza, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025.

US Vice President JD Vance to visit Israel this week alongside Special Envoy Witkoff

The US officials are expected to discuss transitioning into the second phase of US President Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance waves as he boards Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., October 17, 2025.

WATCH: Israeli man confronted while removing sign calling for return of deceased hostages

The man was confronted by a woman who claimed to have paid for the poster of the 21 hostages.

A poster of hostage Bipin Joshi, a citizen of Nepal, is displayed at the protest camp for hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack, in the vicinity of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Jerusalem residence, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, in Jerusale

Nir Oz's 'cowboy': Eliyahu Margalit's remains returned to Israel, authorities confirm

The IDF confirmed that the remains handed over by Hamas on Friday night are from Eliyahu Margalit, a resident of Nir Oz, who was killed on October 7 and taken to Gaza.

Released hostage Eliyahu Margalit.

Guy Gilboa-Dalal endured 'nightmare' in Hamas captivity, freed hostage's father says

Ilan Dalal told N12 that despite the damage his son sustained in Hamas captivity, "slowly, with a lot of love and with family and friends around him, he will be fine."

Ilan Dalal and hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal

‘If anyone could handle captivity, it was him’: Danny Miran discusses son's Gaza captivity

While Omri's brother, Boaz, told Israeli media that he was originally kept in a cage whilst in captivity, his father, Danny, told N12 that he was relatively well-fed and was not starved.

Released hostage Omri Miran waves the Israeli flag as he arrives to Ichilov hospital, October 13, 2025.

On the ground in Hostage Square as the historic deal unfolds

'Until all 48 hostages are freed and back on Israeli soil, I cannot breathe.'

EVYATAR DAVID (R) and Guy Gilboa-Dalal – childhood friends taken captive at the Nova festival –  are reunited upon release, at Beilinson Hospital, Oct. 13.

When time stood still: The lost two years for Hamas hostages

For those held for two years, release is a collision of timelines. Their timeline, frozen in the moments of abduction on October 7, and everyone else’s, which has continued.

TIME STOOD still for many of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas underground in tunnels. For them, rebuilding their lives means dealing with two lost years. Here, IDF soldiers exit a Hamas tunnel used on October 7 in northern Gaza.

WATCH: Israel receives hostage remains after Hamas locates body in Gaza

Hamas originally said that it would return the body of a slain Israeli hostage at 11 p.m. on Friday, but the Red Cross handover occured around midnight.

The remains of a deceased hostage arrive in Israel on October 18, 2025.

Israel’s road to healing didn’t end with the hostages’ return, it’s just beginning - opinion

Only a society that acknowledges its vulnerability and still chooses life can transform the end of war from a moment of paralysis into a turning point.

Celebrations at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv as negotiators set to sign deal freeing all hostages from Gaza, October 9, 2025