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    addition to hostages with only Israeli citizenship, almost half of the hostages are foreign nationals or have multiple citizenships. Some hostages were Negev...
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    Countervalue Foreign hostages in Afghanistan Foreign hostages in Iraq Foreign hostages in Nigeria Foreign hostages in Somalia Hostage MP Hostage Taking Act Pidyon...
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    Iranian Army), took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took them as hostages. The hostages were held for 444 days, from November 4, 1979 to their release on...
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  • The Hostages Convention (formally the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages) is a United Nations treaty by which states agree to prohibit...
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  • Look up hostages in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hostages are people seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party. Hostages or The...
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  • Kidnapping and killing of Hersh Goldberg-Polin (category Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis)
    video of the hostages in which each one identified him/herself. The video concludes with a promise to release another video with the hostages' "last message"...
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    of the hostages. On 25 November, some 100,000 people rallied at Hostages Square to mark "50 Days of Hell" since the Hamas assault and hostage-taking....
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    anniversary and call for the return of hostages. On 1 September 2024, the Israel Defense Forces stated that six hostages taken by Hamas, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin...
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  • offered the hostage-takers the opportunity to leave for any country other than Russia or Chechnya if they released all hostages unharmed. The hostages made an...
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  • of the Gaza Strip killed three Israeli hostages taken during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. The hostages, who were trying to be rescued, were visibly...
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    Yugoslavia; and they were charged with ordering the hostage-taking of civilians and wanton shootings of these hostages, the reprisal killings of civilians, and the...
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  • people were injured. The attackers took approximately 1,100 hostages. The number of hostages was initially downplayed by the government to the 200–400 range...
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    themselves and the hostages on a plane to Cairo, where they intended to continue negotiations for the prisoners' release. To verify the hostages were still alive...
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  • January 2021. "Hostages Season 2 Review: This season, 'Hostages' gets grittier and better", The Times of India, retrieved 22 January 2021 "Hostages Season 2...
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  • This is a list of notable hostage crises by date. "Hostages Held by Hamas: The Names of Those Abducted From Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved 2023-12-07. "Six...
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  • Kidnapping of Noa Argamani (category Hostage taking in Israel)
    male hostages asking Israel to bring them home. The next day, Hamas released another video showing Argamani stating that the two male hostages had been...
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    Entebbe raid (category Hostage rescue operations involving Israel)
    course of 90 minutes, 102 of the hostages were rescued successfully, with three having been killed. One of the dead hostages, Dora Bloch, was murdered by...
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  • Netanyahu, one released hostage stated the hostages were "terrified that it would not be Hamas, but Israel, that would kill us." The hostages were held in a variety...
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    that represents the hostages and kibbutz community and makes announcements of relevant news such as the deaths confirmed of the hostages. Within days of the...
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    the hostages held by Hezbollah. Reagan always publicly insisted after the scandal broke in late 1986 that the purpose behind the arms-for-hostages trade...
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    Knowth.com photo of Samhain sunrise at the Mound of Hostages "The Stone Age Mound of the Hostages is also aligned with the Samhain sunrise." The sun rises...
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    almost half of the hostages were foreign nationals or held multiple citizenships. Some hostages were Negev Bedouins. Some of the hostages, including three...
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    photographers boarded the bus as volunteer hostages in exchange for the releases. By noon, three additional hostages, including the Filipino tour guide and...
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  • its height. The hostages were mostly Americans and Western Europeans, but 21 national origins were represented. At least eight hostages died in captivity;...
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  • Hostage diplomacy, also hostage-diplomacy, is the taking of hostages for diplomatic purposes. While common in the ancient world, it is a controversial...
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    Iranian Embassy siege (category Hostage taking in the United Kingdom)
    negotiators secured the release of five hostages in exchange for minor concessions, such as the broadcasting of the hostage-takers' demands on British television...
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  • significantly. Many hostages remain missing with no clue as to their whereabouts. The United States Department of State Hostage Working Group was organized...
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    or damages. A total of 40 hostages were taken from the music festival. As of 1 September 2024[update], 18 of the hostages are still being held captive...
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    Stockholm syndrome (category Hostage taking)
    the hostages' safety. This forced the hostages to negotiate for their lives and releases with the robbers on their own. In the process, the hostages saw...
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    kidnapped hostages. Kulanu Hatufim (Hebrew: כולנו חטופים; lit. 'We Are All Hostages') is a protest movement consisting of family hostages and their supporters...
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