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2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva |Daniele Hamamdjian |Gabe Joselow

DURA, West Bank — Israeli soldiers burst into her bedroom in the middle of the night as she slept, arresting her at gunpoint as her younger sisters watched on. But after more than a year in prison, Jenin Amro told NBC News she still doesn’t know why she was detained. Like all of the 90 Palestinian women and children releasedin the first hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas in January, she was labeled as a “terrorist” by the Israel Prison Service.

Jan 16, 2025 | msn.com | Gabe Joselow

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Jan 16, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva |Gabe Joselow |Henry Austin

TEL AVIV — For relatives clinging to hope for the past 16 months, there were mixed emotions about the news that Israel and Hamas had struck a deal to free their family members.  Some of the hostages are due to come home, but in some cases only their remains will return. “I’m really happy about everybody, but on the other hand we have four American hostages that were murdered on Oct.

Dec 13, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Gabe Joselow

Dec. 13, 2024, 5:28 PM UTCDAMASCUS, Syria — Cockroaches crawled out of the walls near a dirty, stained sink in the Syrian prison cell where an ex-prisoner told NBC News that American journalist Austin Tice was once held. Sahar al-Ahmad said he was in the cell across from Tice and last saw him alive in July 2022. “I saw him twice. On one occasion I stole a glance while he was walking and exercising,” Ahmad said in an interview Thursday, adding that he never spoke with Tice.

Dec 10, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Richard Engel |Gabe Joselow |Alexander Murray Smith

Dec. 10, 2024, 5:43 PM UTCDAMASCUS, Syria — In the outskirts of Syria’s capital Tuesday, the hope of a country freed from its longtime dictator was muddled with the emerging horrors of the Assad regime. Thousands of people were rushing to labyrinthine prisons, searching for any trace of loved ones they feared had disappeared into their unseen depths. The most notorious gulag lies in the barren, rocky hills outside the capital, Damascus.