Don’t be grateful two hostages’ bodies were recovered. Be furious.
The remains of two Israeli-American hostages have been returned from Gaza — but that doesn't mean closure
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Fast Forward Run for Their Lives, the Israeli hostage solidarity movement, presses on after Colorado firebombing
After initially calling for a pause to these events, the group is telling its local chapters to decide for themselves whether to proceed and to consider taking extra precautions if they do.
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Fast Forward IDF recovers remains of Gadi and Judith Weinstein Haggai, American-Israelis killed on Oct. 7
The couple was on their morning walk on Kibbutz Nir Oz when terrorists attacked
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Fast Forward ‘Chilling and frightening’: Run for Their Lives organizers react to Boulder attack
A man threw Molotov cocktails at a Boulder, Colorado, event to raise awareness for the hostages’ plight
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Fast Forward In Chicago, mayoral appointee resigns amid criticism for tearing down Israeli hostage poster
Ishan Daya apologized for tearing down the poster in 2023, whose wording he also called “racist and dehumanizing"
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Fast Forward US hostage envoy: ‘We’re closer than we ever were’ to a deal with Hamas
Adam Boehler gave a full-throated defense of the direct talks between Hamas and the United States
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Opinion Edan Alexander’s release was the last good news we’ll get from wartime Israel
I celebrated my fellow Tenafly native's freedom. But there are too many reasons to believe the future for other hostages is bleak.
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Opinion The staggering hypocrisy behind Trump’s deal to free the last living American hostage
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Opinion Don’t be grateful two hostages’ bodies were recovered. Be furious.
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