"Fernando and Louis – welcome home. I salute our brave soldiers for their bold action which brought about their release. Only continued military pressure, until a complete victory, will bring about the release of all of our hostages," Israeli president Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that 31 hostage families were informed by the military that their loved ones have passed away.
Family members of Israeli hostages who were taken by Hamas spoke at a Texas megachurch Sunday and urged Christians to support the Jewish state and to speak up for the hostages, calling the ongoing war a "battle between good and evil."
While God loves us and wants to bless us (cf. Ephesians 2:4–5), he cannot love us and bless that which harms us.
An Israeli Defense Forces spokesman says Hamas is holding 212 hostages, up from the previous estimate of 203.
Hamas has released two American hostages, Judith Raanan and her daughter Natalie.
Families in Israel are desperate for information about family members after Hamas terrorists abducted some 150 people in its attack on Israel over the past weekend.
Among the 100 or so Israeli citizens kidnapped by Hamas during the terrorist organization’s attack on the Holy Land was an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who her family says desperately needs her medicines.
A group of 30 missing people were rescued, but ongoing fear of the current and future state of Hamas hostages.
