The freed hostages are Eliya Cohen, Avera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed, Omer Shem Tov, Tal Shoham and Omer Wenkert.

Hamas on Friday night handed over Shiri’s body to the Red Cross, which in turn delivered the corpse to Israel for identification.

“On behalf of the State of Israel, I bow my head and ask for forgiveness,” wrote Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

This idea didn’t start with Gaza, and in most other cases it has been a resounding success.

Fashionable antisemitism has caused leftist myths about Israeli “oppressors” to dismiss justified anger and grief about the fate of the Bibas kids.

“Until we receive definitive confirmation, our ordeal is not over,” the family said, after Hamas announced that the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, are to be returned to Israel.

The day I watched the hostage release was the day my hope was restored.

A large majority of the Israeli population (68%) supports US President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

For 76 years, Israel has lived in a state of perpetual emergency, surviving against all odds every single day. And we must ask, once and for all: Why? Why do we accept this reality?