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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

Passengers and crew held hostage after a 1990 British Airways flight landed are suing the airline and the UK government for “deliberately endangering” them.

This is the dramatic moment three hostages were rescued in Gaza more than eight months after being kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival in Israel.

Harrowing footage previously showed Noa begging for her life as Hamas thugs dragged her to Gaza

The bodies of three more Israeli hostages have been recovered from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said.

Multiple people have been held hostage at a bar in the Netherlands where armed police surrounded the building amid reports that a man entered with weapons and explosives

Ex-Jetstar pilot Philip Mark Mehrtens, from New Zealand, looks gaunt and pale in the new hostage video - he was kidnapped a year ago by the rebel West Papua National Liberation Army

Abigail Idan, aged just four-years-old, saw her mum and dad gunned down in front of her by Hamas militants who attacked her kibbutz on the October 7 attack

In a landmark hostage-swap deal between Israel and Hamas, a young American girl has been released today. It comes after a deal will see 150 Palestinian women and children released from Israeli prisons

There were scenes of jubilation as four jeeps carrying 24 hostages released by Hamas ended their weeks of terror this evening and are now set to return to loved ones

Nicky Perfect experienced many highs and lows in her time as a Met police hostage negotiator - but the hardest to handle was the ISIS kidnapping of a British journalist in Syria

Two people including a suspect are dead after a hostage situation. SWAT teams secure the release of two other women and a three-year-old child from a property in Spring Valley, Nevada

Jacob Cloke died in hospital five days after he killed mum-of-two Hayley Burke during a shocking hostage siege at her home in Dartford, Kent