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Israeli hostages held by Hamas are being subjected to rape and ‘sexualised torture’, according to UN report that describes ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment’

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There are ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe Hamas committed rape, ‘sexualized torture,’ and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on October 7, a report from the United Nations has concluded. 

There are also ‘reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing,’ said Pramila Patten, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, who visited Israel and the West Bank from January 29 to February 14 with a nine-member technical team.

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Israeli star Rona-Lee Shimon of Netflix hit Fauda wipes away tears while watching video of Hamas terrorists kidnapping innocent civilians on October 7 amid desperate calls to bring hostages home

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Rona-Lee Shimon, star of the global Netflix hit Fauda, is sitting in an office in downtown Tel Aviv listening to a teenager recounting her brother’s kidnapping by Hamas on October 7.

The actress is shown a clip of Evyatar David being dragged along a dusty street by a terrorist jubilantly holding aloft an AK-47. In another sequence, 23-year-old Evyatar lies in the back of a truck, his hands cuffed behind him. He is punched and slapped.

What torments his 18-year-old

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Lawless Ecuador descends into chaos: Machete-wielding cartel thugs threaten to kill hostages and execute ANYONE they find in the streets as president vows to ‘neutralise’ 20 drug gangs in deepening narco ‘civil war’

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Machete-wielding cartel thugs have threatened to kill hostages and execute anyone they find in the streets of Ecuador at night, according to terrifying videos released as the South American nation descended into lawless chaos.

Ecuador’s president has ordered his army to ‘neutralise’ 20 drug gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio and inmates executed prison guards.

At least 10 people are known to have been killed in a series of barbaric attacks by the drug gangs

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Fresh blow for family of Kfir Bibas as Hamas offer to exchange three hostages’ bodies a day after claiming the baby, his brother and mother were killed in Israeli bombardment

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The family of Kfir Bibas, a baby who was snatched and taken into Gaza by Hamas, faced yet more anguish today after the terrorists offered to hand over the bodies of three hostages to Israel.

Hamas claimed that Israel had refused its offer to hand over the three bodies without naming the dead. 

But it comes a day after the terrorists claimed – without providing evidence – that the ten-month-old, his four-year-old brother Ariel and his mother Shiri Silberman-Bibas, 30,

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Free at last! 13 women and children Israeli hostages are finally released after 48 days in captivity in Gaza – along with 12 Thai nationals who were also being held by Hamas

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The first group of hostages have been released from Gaza after 48 days of captivity as part of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas that went into effect this morning.

Thirteen Israeli women and children and 12 Thai hostages, who were kidnapped and taken into the territory by the terror group in its October 7 attack on Israel, were finally freed today after an agonising wait.

Israeli media reported the hostages had been transferred by Hamas to the Red

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Israel-Hamas LIVE: First hostages are expected to be released by terror group tomorrow as Pope says the conflict ‘has gone beyond war – this is terrorism’

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Syria says Israeli strikes have targeted Damascus

  • The Syrian army claims Israel is hitting the capital Damascus with airstrikes.
  • The statement said the rockets were fired from the Golan Heights and targeted outposts in the vicinity of the city.
  • No casualties were reported and no further details were disclosed.

Reaction to the hostage deal from the UN and World Health

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Israel-Hamas war LIVE: US says deal to release Israeli hostages has reached a ‘very sensitive stage’ – with ‘significant progress in recent hours’

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UN chief ‘deeply shocked’ at bombardment of schools in Gaza who called casualty numbers in the war ‘staggering and unacceptable’

  • United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres says he is ‘deeply shocked’ that two UN schools were attacked in less than 24 hours in Gaza.
  • ‘Dozens of people – many women and children – were killed and injured as they were seeking
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Iran Will Keep Taking Hostages If the Money Keeps Flowing

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The first time I saw Siamak Namazi was while I was in my cell in Evin Prison, in Tehran. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the longest-held American hostage in Iran was being kept only a few hundred meters away from where I crouched on stained and threadbare carpet, my eyes fixed on a dusty wall-mounted television screen. I didn’t understand Farsi back then, but I knew Amrika, and had come to recognise the word jasoos,

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Autocrats, Not Terrorists, Are Increasingly Taking Americans Hostage

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Last spring, Danny Fenster decided to return home from Myanmar for a family visit. Fenster, a thirty-seven-year-old journalist and a Detroit native, had moved to the country in 2019 to take a job as an editor at a local news outlet. On his way to the Yangon airport on the morning of May 24th, Fenster saw trucks full of soldiers and a police checkpoint on the road to the terminal. Four months earlier, the country’s military had seized power from

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