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    Harrowing stories emerge as Hamas frees more hostages taken from Israel

    JERUSALEM — All the stories are the same; all the stories are different. They were held underground or above ground, together with loved ones or separated, cut off from the outside world or keenly aware of the catastrophic battle unfolding around them, plunged in grief or unaware of the fate of a husband, a mother, a child. Nearly a week after the Palestinian militant group Hamas began freeing ...
    by Laura King and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Nov 29, 2023 5 minutes
    Israeli soldiers stand next to a helicopter carrying two Israeli-Russian hostages taken by Hamas militants on the Oct. 7 attack, and released on Nov. 29, 2023, at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan.

    JERUSALEM — All the stories are the same; all the stories are different.

    They were held underground or above ground, together with loved ones or separated, cut off from the outside world or keenly aware of the catastrophic battle unfolding around them, plunged in grief or unaware of the fate of a husband, a mother, a child.

    Nearly a week after the Palestinian militant group Hamas began freeing hostages under terms of a temporary truce with Israel, a textured portrait of sojourn in captivity in the war-battered Gaza Strip is beginning to emerge.

    Hamas fighters and other attackers seized an estimated 240 people during a on small southern Israeli communities, frontier army bases and an . A total of 97 have been released since last week, including

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