Hostage horrors

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Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence.

It’s been nearly six months since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, when militants took more than 200 hostages into Gaza.

In a village called Nir Oz, near the border, one quarter of residents were eithe ...

Warning: This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.

When Hamas attacked Israel, they took two hundred hostages back with them into the Gaza Strip, including grandparents and children as young as nine months old. It was one of the largest m ...

Hamas released two Israeli hostages yesterday. CNN’s Erin Burnett reports live from Tel Aviv about the elderly women’s accounts of being kidnapped and held captive by Hamas, the medical attention they and others received, and the “huge network” of tunnels they were hidden in. Plu ...  Show more