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Two years after Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre, 48 hostages — dead and alive — remain in captivity
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Two years after Hamas carried out its brutal Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, 48 hostages are still in the Gaza Strip. Of those who remain, not all are alive. Some, including two U.S. citizens, are confirmed to be deceased and their bodies remain in the hands of their captors.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement marking the anniversary as the U.S. seeks to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas based on President Donald Trump’s 20-Point Plan.
«On this second anniversary of Hamas’s heinous October 7 attacks, the United States remains steadfast in our support for Israel in our common fight against terrorism and our shared commitment to bringing an end to the suffering of all hostages and their families,» Rubio said. «[The president’s] 20-Point Plan offers a historic opportunity to close this dark chapter, and to build a foundation for lasting peace and security for all.»
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Aviv marking the second anniversary of the attacks by Palestinian terrorists, on Oct. 7, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee released a statement Monday, a day before the anniversary, as Tuesday also marks the start of Sukkot, when many Jews refrain from using technology during the holiday’s first two days.
«Hamas shattered a peaceful morning by massacring 1,200 innocent men, women, and children and barbarically taking hostage more than 250 into Gaza’s terror tunnels – including U.S. citizens,» Huckabee said. «May October 7, 2023, forever remind us that evil and antisemitism are not mere metaphors – but brutal realities that God and Holy Scripture enjoin us to combat with all our might.»
«Thanks to the tremendous leadership of President Trump, there is a deal to free the remaining 48 hostages – living and deceased – from Gaza’s dungeons, bring closure to the families, and establish conditions for a lasting peace. We pray and continue to make every effort to bring the 48 hostages, including two U.S. citizens, home so they are reunited with their loved ones,» he added.
Israeli and Hamas leaders are engaging in talks in Egypt as the end of the war hangs in the balance. Hamas recently agreed to release all hostages, including those living and the remains of the dead, but did not accept Trump’s deal.
The remaining hostages believed to be alive are Rom Braslavski, Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Gali Berman, Ziv Berman, Segev Kalfon, Eitan Horn, Omri Miran, Avinatan Or, Matan Angrest, Nimrod Cohen, Elkana Bohbot, Ariel Cunio, David Cunio, Bipin Joshi, Matan Zangauker, Maxim Herkin, Bar Abraham Kupershtein, Eitan Abraham Mor, Tamir Nimrodi, Yosef-Chaim Ohana and Alon Ohel, according to ABC News.
Those who are declared deceased but whose bodies remain in Gaza are Omer Neutra, Itay Chen, Meny Godard, Eliyahu Margalit, Eitan Levi, Yossi Sharabi, Hadar Goldin, Tamir Adar, Amiram Cooper, Muhammad Al-Atarash, Sahar Baruch, Lior Rudaeff, Uriel Baruch, Inbar Hayman, Arie Zalmanowicz, Ran Gvili, Tal Haimi, Guy Illouz, Ronen Engel, Joshua Loitu Mollel, Dror Or, Daniel Or, Daniel Peretz, Asaf Hamami, Sonthaya Oakkharasri and Sudthisak Rinthalak, according to ABC News.
Here are some of their stories.
People take part in a protest outside a U.S. Embassy branch in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2025, demanding the end of the war and immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Omer Neutra
Capt. Omer Neutra was serving as an IDF tank platoon commander in the Armored Corps 77th Battalion, 7th Brigade, when he was killed in battle on Oct. 7. Since then, his body has been held in Gaza while his parents, residents of Long Island, wait to bury their son. The IDF confirmed his death in December 2024.
Neutra grew up in a suburb of New York City, where he was born. His parents remember his sense of humor and his love of the New York Knicks. After high school, Neutra deferred his college studies to spend a gap year in Israel. While there, he further deferred college and instead enlisted in the Israeli army.
«He sees people. He pays attention. He has this great sense of humor. So, he touches so many,» Orna Neutra, Omer’s mother, told Fox News Digital in September 2024.
Itay Chen
Itay Chen, an American and Israeli citizen, was taken hostage when Hamas attacked his IDF unit during the Oct. 7 massacre. In March 2024, the IDF announced that Chen was likely dead.
Ruby Chen, Itay’s father, wrote in a July 4th op-ed that on America’s Independence Day his son’s «lack of freedom rings loudly.» He also addressed the United Nations to plead for the return of the hostages.
«Itay wasn’t just a name on the list. Itay was my son, whom I carried for 9 months and always tried to protect. Itay was a vibrant teenager who spent his youth with the Scouts and loved playing basketball with his brothers Roy and Alon,» Itay’s mother, Hagit Chen, wrote in an op-ed in October 2024.
Former Hamas hostage Eli Sharabi and Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon hold a photo of Sharabi’s family that shows his wife and daughters, all three of whom were murdered on Oct. 7. (Perry Bindelglass)
Yossi Sharabi
Yossi Sharabi, whose brother, Eli, was released from Hamas captivity in February 2025, remains in Gaza. Yossi was kidnapped on Oct. 7 from Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the hardest-hit communities in southern Israel. In January 2024, Israel confirmed his death.
Yossi’s brother Eli suffered tremendous losses. In addition to his brother, Eli’s wife and daughters were also murdered by Hamas. Since being released, Eli has been outspoken about the brutality of captivity and has advocated for the release of other hostages.
Eitan Levi
Eitan Levi drove a friend to her home in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, 2023, when at 7:30 a.m. he called to report missile fire, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. At 7:40 a.m., Levi, while on the phone, was heard saying it landed on the roof of his car, the group said. What followed were the sounds of a struggle, Arabic and then silence.
Levi’s family was notified of his murder 62 days later, the organization said.
«We will continue to talk about you, to commemorate you and to fight for the return of your body for burial in Israel,» Levi’s son Shachar said, according to the forum.
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Eliyahu Margalit
Eliyahu Margalit was murdered at Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, and his body was taken hostage. His daughter, Nili Margalit, was also taken captive but was released in November 2023, according to The Times of Israel.
The 75-year-old’s family said he was going to feed his beloved horses on the morning of the massacre, The Times of Israel reported. His horses were also reportedly taken into Gaza.
Hadar Goldin’s body has been held captive by Hamas terrorists since 2014. (Courtesy: Bring Them Home Now)
Hadar Goldin
Hadar Goldin was not taken in the Oct. 7 attacks. He was an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014 during Operation Protective Edge. His body has been held in Gaza for over a decade.
Chair of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, Leo Terrell, met with the Goldin family and often wears a hat with Hadar’s name on it.
Last month, Terrell wrote on X, «Hadar is the longest held hostage in Gaza. His story reminds us of unbearable pain families endure daily. Hamas must release all the hostages! Every mom has the right to bury her son!»
Ofir Braslavski shows a video from terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, published last week of his son Rom looking gaunt and emaciated in captivity in Gaza. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Rom Braslavski
Rom Braslavski was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival when he was taken hostage.
«When the terrorists attacked, Rom could have fled to save himself. Instead, he chose to stay. He stayed to treat the wounded, evacuate the injured, shelter the terrified, and did his best to somehow preserve dignity amid chaos,» Ofir Braslavski wrote in a Fox News Digital op-ed in August 2025, shortly after Rom’s captors released a propaganda video of him.
In the video, Braslavski appeared frail and said he was suffering unbearable pain and was unable to stand or go to the bathroom on his own.
«What I saw shattered me: my son – on the verge of death, visibly suffering, crying and begging for his life. I didn’t recognize him. He was so weak, so emaciated. His voice was frail, and his eyes were hollow and empty – as if he was about to give up. I know it’s hard to believe, but this was the first time I ever saw my son cry. Really cry,» Ofir wrote, adding a plea to Trump to get his son «out of hell.»
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This screengrab from a video released on Aug. 1, 2025, by Hamas shows Israeli hostage Evyatar David looking weak and malnourished. David was abducted during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
Evyatar David
Evyatar David was abducted from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. Since being taken captive, David has appeared in propaganda films put out by his captors. One of the videos showed him and Guy Gilboa-Dalal, his childhood best friend who was also kidnapped, being forced to watch other hostages be freed.
In August, David was in a video that shocked the world and drew commentary from the White House. He looked frail – reduced to just 90 pounds – and was seen struggling to speak. Though, in a section that struck many, David was forced to dig his own grave. When asked about the video, Trump called it «horrible.»
Ilay David, Evyatar’s brother, addressed the United Nations after the video was released.
«As my younger brother, a living skeleton, was forced to speak and dig his grave, the chubby and well-fed hand of a Hamas terrorist entered the frame. Suddenly, Hamas confirmed what we have known for months – the terrorists have plenty of food. The only ones starving in Hamas’ tunnels are the hostages,» Ilay said.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal
Guy Gilboa-Dalal was taken from the Nova music festival along with his childhood best friend Evyatar David. In March, Gilboa-Dalal was featured in a propaganda video with David in which the two were forced to watch other hostages be released before having the door of the van they were sitting in slammed shut. Both of the men appeared thin, tired and frightened.
People lift a banner and portraits of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip during a rally in Tel Aviv marking two years since the attacks on Oct. 7, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
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Gali and Ziv Berman
Twins Gali and Ziv Berman, who turned 28 while in captivity, were taken from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, along with Emily Damari, who was freed earlier this year.
«Our beloved Gali and Ziv, how we feared this day would come – a second birthday in hell. You are 28 years old today, though we’re not sure you even know it,» the Berman family said in a statement, The Jerusalem Post reported. «You have lost your freedom and control over your own lives.»
While their current status is unknown, the Berman family was told that the brothers were separated shortly after arriving in Gaza.
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Israel’s Foreign Ministry blasted Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, after he marked the day with a post criticizing Israel and the U.S. and calling to end what he described as «occupation and apartheid.»
«Two years after Hamas launched its barbaric massacre against Israel and the Jewish people, Mamdani has chosen to act as a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda — spreading Hamas’s fake genocide campaign,» wrote the ministry.
The Israel Foreign Ministry said that «by repeating Hamas’s lies, he excuses terror and normalizes antisemitism.»
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The Israel Foreign Ministry called New York City Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani (left) a «mouthpiece for Hamas propanda.» Pictured on right are Hamas terrorists in Gaza. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images and Getty Images)
«He stands with Jews only when they are dead. Shameful,» the ministry added.
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
In his statement, Mamdani acknowledged that «two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more.»
He wrote, «I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage.»
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Mamdani criticized Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for having «launched a genocidal war» with a death toll he said, «far exceeds 67,000: with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble.» (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
At the same time, Mamdani also criticized Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for having «launched a genocidal war» with a death toll that, he said, «far exceeds 67,000: with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble.»
«Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language,» Mamdani wrote, adding, «our government has been complicit through it all.»
Mamdani also wrote that «the occupation and apartheid must end» and that the U.S. «must hold those responsible to account.»
«The last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights,» wrote Mamdani.
Jewish leaders and advocates have criticized 33-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani since he secured the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City, particularly for his hesitancy to condemn the phrase «globalize the intifada.»
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A pro-Gaza ceasefire tent encampment at Columbia University in New York City on April 28, 2024. (Getty Images)
After months of refusing to condemn the anti-Israel rallying cry, which, according to the American Jewish Committee, «calls for people from around the globe to participate in rising up against Israel,» Mamdani shared with business leaders during a closed-door meeting in July that he would not use the slogan and would discourage others from using it moving forward.
However, his previous record has left many still very concerned.
«If Zohran Mamdani is elected, expect a Jewish exodus out of New York City,» Yuval David, an actor, filmmaker and Jewish activist told Fox News Digital.
In an interview with «Meet the Press» host Kristen Welker in June, Mamdani was asked to condemn the phrase three times but refused. He attempted to justify his position, saying, «My concern is, to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible, takes me into a place similar to that of the president, who is looking to do those very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing an op-ed, putting them in jail for protesting.»
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Israeli soldiers watch the northern Gaza Strip from southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo)
«Ultimately, it is not language that I use. It is language, I understand there are concerns about, and what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions,» he said.
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Mamdani has also been criticized for supporting a slate of anti-Israel positions such as supporting BDS, an acronym for boycott, divestment and sanctions, and sanctions against Israel.
After Mamdani’s Oct. 7 post, the antisemitism awareness group Canary Mission also criticized him, saying he «pays lip service to condemning the Hamas massacre» while he «reserves much more vitriol for Israel, which he accuses of perpetuating a Nakba, occupation and apartheid on a regular basis- including in his October 7 statement itself!»
Fox News Digital’s Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.
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Ruins of apartments destroyed by Israeli strikes litter the area next to Khaled Nassar’s home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza City Feb. 9, 2025. Nassar’s daughter, Dalia, and his son, Mahmoud, were killed in separate airstrikes, leaving both buried under their homes. (AP Photo/Abdel Hana)Israel ocupa la gran mayoría de Gaza
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Exactly two years ago, Hamas terrorists stormed the Israeli border from Gaza, killing young families living on a small kibbutz and hunting down young people attending an outdoor music festival. The attackers killed more than 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages.
Fox’s Trey Yingst was on the scene several days after the massacre in Beeri. This is what he saw:
«The kitchen floors are stained with blood. People were home at the time. It was early in the morning on Saturday when Hamas militants stormed into their homes. The soldiers here tell us they found bodies that appeared to be executed. People with hands tied behind their backs, mothers holding their small children, bodies decapitated. Pure horror in this small town,» Yingst reported.
TWO YEARS AFTER HAMAS’ OCT. 7 MASSACRE, 48 HOSTAGES — DEAD AND ALIVE — REMAIN IN CAPTIVITY
Keith Siegel, accompanied by his wife Aviva (on his left), disembark from a military helicopter at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichlov) on Feb 1. 2025. (Getty Images)
Forty-eight hostages remain in Gaza. Twenty are believed to be alive. Aviva Siegel was held for 51 days, while her husband, Keith, was held for more than 400.
«When they came in to kidnap us, they shot us. And one of the bullets hit Keith. And it didn’t hit me because I was lucky, but it could have been different. And we were taken underneath the ground and we just didn’t have any air to breathe. And I really felt that it’s gonna be my last hours of my life,» Siegel told Fox News on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks.
She remembers arriving in Gaza and seeing Palestinian families cheering and jeering at the wounded hostages.
Israeli forces are seen among the rubble of buildings destroyed after Palestinian terrorists attacked parts of southern Israel, in Be’eri, Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. (Nir Keidar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«Everybody was just waiting for us. They knew we were coming. And we were taken immediately underneath the ground. And I’ll never forget the picture that I’ve got in my head of the terrorist, telling me to come down this ladder. It’s very narrow to go underneath the ground. I’m shaking. I’ll never forget his smile,» Siegel said on the second anniversary of the attacks and the start of her captivity.
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American Israeli citizen Keith Siegel walks toward his release by Hamas terrorists during a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in February 2025. (Omar-Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images)
Her husband Keith was kept in solitary confinement for six months.
«I was moved 13 times in 51 days while I was there. While Keith stayed there for 484 days, we were tortured, we were starved. They used to eat in front of us. I lost 10 kilos. Keith came home looking like a skeleton. He was just so thin. I couldn’t walk when I came back. I was so ill,» Aviva said.
Tens of thousands of Gazans have been killed in the aftermath by the Israeli military, which now controls 80% of the Gaza Strip. Israel says it does not target civilians but more than 90% of Gaza is now destroyed.
Keith Siegel meets his family at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. (GPO)
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«I’m a witness to the Hamas terrorist touching the girls and doing whatever they wanted. I’m witness of the Hamas terrorists beating one of the girls that was with us and threatening her that they’re gonna kill her just because they thought she was lying,» Siegel said. «For me, it was like I was killed. For me not to be able to help them and to help Keith when he was tortured was the worst thing that I could go through. It was worse than when I was tortured. And I was tortured. I was pulled by my hair. I was pushed. I was starved. I was laughed at. I was threatened. I went to hell.»
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