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The recordings came as part of a Shin Bet yearly report on counter-terrorism operations over 2024.

While Hamas has refused to release all the requested 34 living hostages, the terror group has reportedly upped the number of security prisoners it demands released.

Why 2024 will be remembered as the year that Israel's enemies lost the plot

Hamas’s reliance on human shields is well-documented. The group stores weapons in schools, hospitals, and mosques, creating deliberate casualties in Israeli military operations.

One of them is an intelligence investigation into how Hamas prepared for the war, and it is expected to serve as the factual evidence for understanding the failures of Military Intelligence.

This year, the lights on the menorah shine alongside yellow ribbons, posters of the hostages’ faces, and the empty seats left for them.

We owe it to our brothers and sisters to bring them home, now. Their candle isn’t out yet.

Hostages were killed around the same time that Bedouin hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi was rescued.

'Her heart couldn’t withstand the unbearable pain since October 7,' Carmit Palty Katzir, Hannah's daughter, said.

Meirav Leshem Gonen, whose daughter Romi is still captive in Gaza, reflects on Hanukkah and the light we can share to bring the hostages home.