As ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas have grinded to a halt, the parents of an American citizen whose body is still being held in Gaza are demanding the Trump administration bring him home.

Families whose relatives remain hostages in Gaza are terrified their loved ones might not return after Israel launched a wave of strikes on the territory.

At the anti-government, pro-hostage deal demonstration on Tel Aviv’s Begin Road, Yotam Cohen, brother of captive soldier Nimrod Cohen, says the government prefers dead hostages. “You pay more for living hostages.

A reported attack by a caracal wild cat on Israeli soldiers has gone viral among social media users in the Arab world. Israeli authorities captured the animal after it attacked soldiers at a southern military base, according to Israeli state broadcaster KAN.

Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi has expressed his anger during an appearance at the U.N. Security Council for having to suffer for so long and worry every day about being killed.

Rabbi Moshe Scheiner and his group delivered more than $500,000 in financial assistance to freed Israeli hostages and their families.

"It's time to end the suffering not only of the families but of an entire nation," one of the hostages' families said in a statement shared with Newsweek.

Twenty-year-old former hostage Agam Berger survived 482 days in Gaza held by Hamas terrorists. Berger has found a new importance in religion, which kept her going during her captivity.