{"id":305904,"date":"2025-10-15T17:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305904\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:29:20","slug":"a-look-at-the-hostages-left-in-gaza-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305904\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the hostages left in Gaza, by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israelis on Monday celebrated<\/a> the return of the last 20 living hostages<\/a> who were held in Gaza under the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. Over the next two days, Hamas said it also released bodies of eight hostages. However, the Israeli military said Wednesday one of the bodies released was not that of a hostage.<\/p>\n

Palestinians rejoiced at Israel\u2019s release of some 2,000 prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire\u2019s first part.<\/p>\n

Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. The ensuing war<\/a> has killed more than 67,600 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry said Saturday.<\/p>\n

The ministry doesn\u2019t distinguish between civilians and combatants. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.<\/p>\n

Here are details on the hostages:<\/p>\n

Total hostages taken during Oct. 7 attack: 251<\/p>\n

Hostages taken before the Oct. 7 attack: four (two who entered Gaza in 2014 and 2015 and the bodies of two soldiers killed in the 2014 war)<\/p>\n

Living hostages released in exchanges or other deals: 160<\/p>\n

Bodies of hostages released in deals: 15<\/p>\n

Bodies of hostages retrieved by Israeli forces: 51<\/p>\n

Hostages rescued alive: eight<\/p>\n

Bodies of hostages still in captivity: 21<\/p>\n

Non-Israeli whose bodies are still in Gaza: 3 (including 2 Thai<\/a> nationals and 1 Tanzanian)<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s war coverage at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israelis on Monday celebrated the return of the last 20 living hostages who were held in Gaza under…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,4526,57,4527,15127,99,3462,373,50,9598,96,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-305904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-gaza-strip","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-hamas","12":"tag-hostage-situations","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-government","15":"tag-israel-hamas-war","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-palestinian-territories-government","18":"tag-war-and-unrest","19":"tag-world","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115379370126845374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}