All news on the topic: Hostage

Armed robbers held 25 people hostage at a bank in Naples for two hours on Thursday, before fleeing through a tunnel.

Ibrahim Akhlal is a fugitive from Belgium, where he was sentenced to 21 years in prison for a series of armed robberies. He is also wanted in the Netherlands in connection with a gold heist described as having “exceptional brutality,” involving a car chase and a shootout with police.

Hamas has handed over the body of a British-educated Israeli soldier who was captured and killed 11 years ago.

Donald Trump is on his way to Israel and Egypt to oversee the crucial hours of a Gaza ceasefire he helped broker, as relatives of hostages "held their breath" ahead of their expected release.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would grant amnesty to Hamas if it releases the remaining hostages and is willing to leave Gaza.

Israel’s military recovered the body of one hostage and the remains of another in Gaza on Friday, as it declared Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone” ahead of a major assault.

The Israeli military states it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage who was taken into Gaza during the attack on October 7.

Israeli PM warns of territorial seizure and ‘other measures’ if Hamas does not release remaining hostages

Strikes come as freed hostages and family members of people still held in Gaza urge Netanyahu to stop the fighting

Gaza ceasefire seems to be holding, but it’s unclear if the exchange will involve all 602 Palestinian prisoners who were scheduled for release on Saturday.

Eliya Cohen spent over 500 days in captivity, fearing that Ziv Abud had died in the Hamas attacks in 2023.

Two days after a distressing error in which Hamas returned a body to Israel that was mistakenly identified as Shiri Bibas, the militant group has now officially returned the correct remains.

IDF statement comes hours after Benjamin Netanyahu orders an increased crackdown on the occupied West Bank following bus explosions.

One suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, is serving a life sentence for a 2014 attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

Hostages and prisoners reunited with loved ones as political concerns shift to the second phase of the truce.

At least 70 bodies have been discovered bound and beheaded in a church in an abandoned village in the eastern region of conflict-ridden DR Congo, with the majority having been held captive for several days.

Israel and Hamas have repeatedly accused each other of violating an initial six-week truce aimed at eventually ending the 15-month war in Gaza and seeing hostages held there released.

IDF releases pictures of Liri Albag, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Karina Ariev being reunited with their families

Hamas has released the names of the latest hostages expected to be freed as part of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Yosef AlZayadni’s body was discovered in southern Gaza by Israeli soldiers amid claims Israel and Hamas are considering a ceasefire deal, which would free the remaining hostages.

A man carrying a knife has taken multiple people hostage inside a pizza restaurant in Paris with dozens of police cars and ambulances at the scene with the area in lockdown

Strike that killed Ahmed al-Ghandour last year was initially said to be unrelated to death of hostages held by Hamas

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lubnov, Carmel Gat and Almog Sarusi discovered in Gaza tunnel; families forum says they could have been saved, urges protests