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Dozens of Hostages Remain in Gaza: What We Know [1]

['Matthew Mpoke Bigg', 'Ephrat Livni']

Date: 2024-09-03

Protests and labor strikes erupted across Israel after the military said on Sunday that it had recovered the bodies of six hostages from Gaza.

Dozens of other hostages abducted in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel remain in captivity, according to the Israeli authorities.

Here is what we know about them.

How many hostages are still in Gaza?

More than 60 living hostages, and the bodies of about 35 others taken captive on Oct. 7 but believed to be dead, are still in Gaza, according to the Israeli authorities.

In all, about 250 people were abducted on Oct. 7, according to Israeli officials, who include in that number 37 people who were murdered in the initial attack and whose bodies were taken back to Gaza. Those taken were mainly civilians but also included military and security personnel. They were men, women and children, Israeli citizens as well as people who were citizens of the United States, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Mexico, Thailand and other countries.

How many hostages are Americans?

In all, 12 people with U.S. citizenship were abducted to Gaza on Oct. 7, according to the Israeli government. Two of them, Judith Raanan and her daughter, Natalie Raanan, were freed on Oct. 20 after pressure on Hamas by the United States and Qatar. Two others were released during a cease-fire in November.

One of the hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual Israeli American citizen, was among the six who were found dead in Gaza over the weekend. He had been taken from a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/world/middleeast/hostages-in-gaza-hamas.html

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