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Hamas freed 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz, along with another elderly woman, on ‘humanitarian’ grounds late on Monday.

Hamas has freed two elderly women held hostage in Gaza. Why bad posture can make us feel stressed, tired and anxious — and how to fix it.

Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip

Each attendee had the name of a Palestinian child killed in the conflict written on the palm of their hand.

Hezbollah could be forced into a war with Israel, but for now it’s trying to avoid any major conflict. That's the view of Ziad Majed, a professor of Middle East studies at the American University in Paris. Majed, who was born in Beirut and lived for years in Lebanon, says…

It is only 17 days since the atrocities of October 7 in which 1,400 people were slaughtered by Hamas in southern Israel. And yet, unbelievably — obscenely — a process of erasure is already under way. Wilful amnesia is beginning to do its terrible work.

A GRANDMOTHER released as a hostage by Hamas militants is “very sharp and is very keen” to share information, her daughter has said.

The footage is more shocking, violent and barbaric than the mind alone can hope to conjure. Video, recovered from Hamas body cameras, together with images from CCTV and mobile phones, provides images of the horror inflicted by the terrorists and sounds of their cheers of celebration as they murdered civilians…