Despite his gratitude for every day he gets with his son, Levy’s ordeal won’t truly be over until all the hostages are home. “The fact that people are still there haunts me in the night,” Levy said.

But special envoy Adam Boehler also called the Palestinian militant group “very hardheaded” in its approach to negotiations.

Ofer Kalderon shares his harrowing experience of captivity and reunification with his children in a powerful interview.

When the executive committee of North Carolina’s Democratic Party passed a resolution in June calling for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, it set off another episode in the party’s ongoing struggles with how it addresses the Israel-Hamas war.

Ms Damari, a British-Israeli who is now 28, was one of 251 people taken captive on the deadliest single day for the Jews since the Holocaust. She was shot and abducted when Hamas gunmen stormed her home in the Kfar Aza kibbutz.

Amos Guiora, a law professor at the University of Utah where he directs the Bystander Initiative, centered his pointed remarks on “enablers,” those in the Israeli government he sees as allowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “abandon” those Hamas still holds captive.

Israel feels optimistic regarding a potential deal for the release of hostages, according to a senior Israeli official at a briefing with reporters.“It’s more likely that we will reach a deal than not.

DENVER (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that Colorado prosecutors can move ahead with their case against a man accused of killing one person and injuring a dozen more in a firebomb attack on demonstrators showing support for Israeli hostages in Gaza.

The 19-year-old approached the pair of officers on Broadway and 47th Street around 1:20 a.m. and doused them in the eyes and face, police and sources said.

This behind-the-scenes record of one family’s wrenching journey encompasses the personal, political and moral quandaries in Israel today.