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By NBC News. Coverage on this live blog has ended. Follow live updates here. Twenty-four hostages were released from Gaza and 39 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli jails amid a...
Apr 25, 2024 · A hostage video released Wednesday by the military wing of Hamas appears to show a statement by an American-Israeli man who was kidnapped on Oct. 7, marking the first time the militant group has...
Nov 27, 2023 · Under the current four-day cease-fire, Hamas has agreed to release a total of 50 Israeli hostages in exchange for Israel releasing 150 Palestinian security prisoners and ramping up aid to the pummeled enclave. Eighteen foreign nationals, mostly Thais, have also been released.
noun. a person given to or held by a person, organization, etc, as a security or pledge or for ransom, release, exchange for prisoners, etc. the state of being held as a hostage. any security or pledge. give hostages to fortune.
Oct 11, 2023 · Washington CNN — The Biden administration is still searching for concrete details about the condition of the handful of Americans believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, including exactly...
Add to word list. someone who is made a prisoner in order to force other people to do something: Inmates at the jail held 12 hostages and demanded to meet the governor. (Definition of hostage from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Jan 15, 2022 · COLLEYVILLE, Texas — The police on Saturday night rescued a rabbi and several hostages who had been held by a man who claimed to have weapons and explosives at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort...
