Shira Pinson

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Shira Pinson |Yasmin Vossoughian

TEL AVIV — It’s a well-established routine. Every day, Zeev Engelmayer takes a seat at his bay window overlooking his backyard in central Tel Aviv. His mission? Fighting despair with an army of colorful markers in a bid to bring hope to the people of Israel. For the past 18 months since the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, he has drawn a daily postcard, many featuring Israeli hostages.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Shira Pinson

TEL AVIV — It’s a well-established routine. Every day, Zeev Engelmayer takes a seat at his bay window overlooking his backyard in central Tel Aviv. His mission? Fighting despair with an army of colorful markers in a bid to bring hope to the people of Israel. For the past 18 months since the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, he has drawn a daily postcard, many featuring Israeli hostages.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Raf Sanchez |Shira Pinson

By and American-Israeli hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen spent “the vast majority” of his almost 500 days in captivity not knowing that his family had survived Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack or that his wife had given birth to their third child while he was held in Gaza, his father told NBC News.    The 36-year old was released from Hamas captivity on Saturday along with two other hostages in exchange for 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

Jan 29, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Raf Sanchez |Shira Pinson

By and JERUSALEM — As Ahmed al-Qudra set off to see what — if anything — remained of his family’s home in the village of al-Qarara, he believed the long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza had begun. So at around 9 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19, he began walking north through the city of Khan Younis with his seven children, including his oldest son, Adil, 16, and his youngest daughter, Sama, 6.  It would prove to be a fatal mistake.

Jan 29, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva |Shira Pinson |Tovah Lazaroff

Hamas plans to release three Israeli hostages on Thursday that include a dual American citizen and a civilianwhose status last week threatened to disrupt the fragile ceasefire between the militant group and Israel. The Hostages Families Forum said it received news that Hamas will release the three Israeli hostages along with five Thai people who were also abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.