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People react as they celebrate following the announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan to pause the fighting, at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

The Daily Article

Hamas accepts Trump’s peace plan, will return all hostages

Jim Denison, PhD

Mourners carry the coffin of Itzhak Elgarat, a slain hostage who was held captive by Hamas in Gaza, during his funeral procession in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, on Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Current events

Growing up on the Gaza border

Reuben Nevo

A sculpture shows slain hostages Shiri Bibas with her young sons Ariel, right, and Kfir, left, who were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip with her husband on Oct. 7, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The Daily Article

Bibas boys returned to Israel in black boxes

Jim Denison, PhD

Israeli captive, Eli Sharabi, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, stands on a stage escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Gaza hostages

The Daily Article

A longtime Israeli friend’s perspective on the Gaza hostages

Jim Denison, PhD

Antique wooden statue of crucified Jesus Christ against dark wooden background. By zwiebackesser/stock.adobe.com. Hamas hostages

The Daily Article

Hamas releases four hostages, but what about the others?

Jim Denison, PhD

Relatives and friends of people killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, react while photographs of the kidnapped women awaiting release Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari appear on the screen in Tel Aviv, Israel on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Biblical living

First hostages released in Hamas–Israel ceasefire

Jim Denison, PhD

Andrey Kozlov, 27, kidnapped from Israel in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, arrives by helicopter to the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Saturday, June 8, 2024. Israel says it has rescued four hostages in Gaza who were kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Tomer Appelbaum)(AP Photo/Tomer Appelbaum)

The Daily Article

Israel rescues four hostages in Gaza operation

Jim Denison, PhD

In this photo provided by the Israeli Army, Emily Hand, right, a released hostage, reunites with her father Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, in Israel. (The Israeli Army via AP)

The Daily Article

“You could just see glassy-eyed terror”: Stories reveal trauma of Israeli children kidnapped by Hamas

Jim Denison, PhD

People walk past an image of 4-year-old Abigail Edan, a hostage held by Hamas who was released on Sunday, projected onto a building in Tel Aviv, Sunday, Nov 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Daily Article

Abigail Edan, 4-year-old American, among hostages released yesterday

Jim Denison, PhD

A woman looks at photographs of hostages, mostly Israeli civilians who were abducted during the Oct. 7, unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

The Daily Article

Israel and Hamas reach deal to release 50 hostages: A Thanksgiving reflection on the definition of true success

Jim Denison, PhD

FILE - A man holds his baby as he looks at posters of the men, women and children held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, during a vigil marking 30 days since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that started the fighting, in Jerusalem, Israel on Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

The Daily Article

The latest on Gaza hostages and the conversion of a famous atheist: A vital question to begin Thanksgiving week

Jim Denison, PhD

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