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Netanyahu instructs Israel's negotiating team to 'exhaust all efforts to release our hostages'

There has been no progress three days into the Gaza deal negotiations in Doha, Qatar, an Israeli source told The Post on Friday.

 (L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff.
 A religious Jewish Israeli is seen by posters of the hostages held in Gaza.

Over 200 rabbis, religious leaders call to bring hostages home in petition

 Hamas terrorists in Rafah, in Gaza, February 22, 2025.

Five-year Gaza ceasefire deal not conveyed to Israel, source tells 'Post'

 Freed hostage Noa Argamani speaks at President Isaac Herzog's residence in Jerusalem, December 10, 2024

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Hamas: Half of living hostages in areas IDF is trying to operate in

"We have decided not to move these captives from those areas and to keep them under strict security measures - but their lives are in extreme danger."

 Abu Obaida, the spokesman of the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, gestures as he speaks during an anti-Israel military show in the southern Gaza Strip November 11, 2019

'Deliver my screams': Hamas publishes video of Elkana Bohbot begging for release

The 35-year-old, who has spent over a year in Hamas captivity, suffers from asthma.

 Hamas releases video of hostage Elkana Bohbot, March 29, 2025.

WATCH: Where was UN, Red Cross during my 491 days of captivity, Eli Sharabi asks UNSC

Released Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi shares his traumatizing experience and his life after returning from horror.

 Former hostage Eli Sharabi shares testimony at the UN Security Council, March 20, 2025.

Israel receives sign of life of Gaza hostage Avinatan Or - report

His family has previously said that they've received multiple signs of life from Or, but none since the spring of 2024.

Hostage Or Avinatan, taken on October 7 alongside his girlfriend Noa Argamani.

Knesset speaker apologizes to families of October 7 victims after violent altercation

Families were blocked from entering the visitors’ section of the plenum to observe a discussion regarding a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 massacre.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana

'Don't destroy our lives': Hamas propaganda video shows Iair, Eitan Horn prior to separation

The video shows the Horn brothers hugging and saying their goodbyes a day before Iair's release, in Hamas's underground tunnels.

 Brothers Iair and Eitan Horn are seen in Hamas's latest propaganda video, March 1, 2025

Former hostage Romi Gonen: Remaining hostages have no time left

"It's sad that even after they were kidnapped, and the whole world has seen their situation, we still have to fight for the obvious," Romi Gonen said.

 Romi Gonen in an undated photo uploaded to social media on February 5, 2025.

Israeli source denies Arab media claim that Hamas will release two slain hostages

The report said that Hamas will release the two deceased hostages in exchange for the 600 prisoners who were supposed to be released on Saturday.

A Palestinian Hamas terrorist speaks with a Stephanie Eller before the release of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 15, 2025.

Kibbutz Nir Oz mourns Shiri Bibas as loving mother's remains returned

Kibbutz Nir Oz announced that Shiri Bibas had been murdered in Hamas captivity an hour after the body arrived at the Institute of Forensic Medicine; the Institute has not yet confirmed this.

 Shiri Bibas's remains returned to Israel from the Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025

Saturday hostage release to continue as planned

This comes after the IDF announced the results of the forensic investigation which found that one of the hostages remains on Thursday morning was not Shiri Bibas.

 A cutout of Shiri Bibas and her son Kfir is seen, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 10, 2024

Family of hostage Yosef-Chaim Ohana received sign of life

"We have a clear indication that he is alive," The aunt of hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana, Hannah Mastronov, told Ynet.

 Yosef Haim Ohana