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Israel confirms 126 people being held hostage by Hamas
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/15/israel-confirms-people-hostage-hamas
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Among them is the Israeli journalist Oded Lifshitz, 83, who was taken from his home in kibbutz Nir Oz with his 85-year-old partner, Yocheved, who had worked for decades for peace and the recognition of Palestinian rights.
The mother of 22-year-old Shani Louk told the news outlet Der Spiegel she had recognised her daughter in online videos showing a woman lying seemingly unconscious face down in the back of a pickup truck in Gaza filled with armed men.
An American woman, Abbey Onn, who moved to Tel Aviv eight years ago, told CBS News earlier this week that five family members had been taken hostage.
Voices for Hostages, an organisation set up in Israel after the attack, has appealed for more information about Erez, Sahar, who it said was in Gaza with her father, grandmother, brother and cousin who has special needs.
In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack, family members of the missing individually pleaded through TV, radio and social media, and phoned every possible contact, in a search for information about their relatives’ whereabouts.
Israel has named a contact for the families, Gal Hirsch, but the head of the national security council, Tzachi Hanegbi, said: “We are not negotiating with an enemy that we have promised to eradicate from the surface of the earth.”
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