Advanced Search

How many hostages does Hamas have? What hostages are being released today? And have any Israeli hostages been released? Here is what is known about the people taken hostage on October 7, the history of Hamas’ hostage-taking, and how Israel has responded in the past.

Colombia President Gustavo Petro has threatened to cut diplomatic relations with Israel, which had suspended exports of security equipment in response to Petro’s comments last week that accused the Jewish State of war crimes while refusing to condemn the massacre of more than 1,300 Israelis by Hamas.
American Jewish Committee, the global advocacy organization for the Jewish people, issued this statement in response:

Anyone supporting Hamas is supporting a vicious terrorist organization, which is no different from ISIS or Al Qaeda.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) today decried the failure of a UN panel to identify the October 7 mass murder of Israelis by Hamas as a terrorist act and protested its “false equivalence” of the Hamas attack and Israel’s self-defensive actions.

Today, in response to findings in the FBI’s 2022 Hate Crime Statistics Report, American Jewish Committee (AJC) expressed grave concern over the staggering number of hate crimes committed against the American Jewish community last year. Hate crimes against Jews increased by 37% in 2022, according to the data released by the FBI.