Families say both men are barely communicating after being held in Hamas captivity for over 10 years after entering Gaza; ...

Avera Mengistu, an Ethiopian-born Israeli, was detained in 2014 after crossing into Gaza on his own.

Ten and a half difficult years—3,818 days of worry, pain, and cries for the return of our son and brother, Avera ...

AFTER an entire decade of harrowing uncertainty, Avera Mengistu is home at last. The Ethiopian-born Israeli hostage, who ...

Hamas freed more hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of the delicate ceasefire ...

Civilians Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengistu had a history of mental illness, according to comments from their families and a ...

Israel on Friday confirmed the names of the latest hostages it expects to be released by Hamas — as outrage mounted over the ...

The IDF published footage of the strike that killed former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, 2024 ...

Sayed, Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen and Omer Shem Tov are the six Israeli hostages who were released by Hamas on ...

Hamas released six living hostages on Saturday in separate locations of the Gaza Strip. Hours later, Israel said it would ...

Hamas handed over to the Red Cross the first two of six Israeli hostages due to be freed on Saturday under the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. The two hostages – Tal Shoham, 40, and Avera Mengistu, 38 ...

Five of the captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned in the past — brought ...