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Oct. 13, 2025, 9:46 AM EDTBy Jay GanglaniMore than two years after they were abducted during the terrorist attack that launched the Israel-Hamas war, all living hostages have been returned to Israel from the Gaza Strip.The 20 surviving hostages were released “after 738 agonizing days in captivity,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement.As part of the first phase of the U.S.-brokered peace deal, Hamas has also agreed to return to Israel the remains of more than two dozen hostages who did not survive. “Our struggle is not over. It will not end until the last hostage is located and returned for proper burial,” the hostage advocacy group said. “This is our moral obligation. Only then will the people of Israel be whole.”Here are the 20 living hostages who were released Monday with details provided by the Missing Families Forum:Alon Ohel.Hostages and Missing Families ForumAlon Ohel, 24, loves music and began playing the piano at the age of 9. He planned to begin his studies at Israel’s Rimon School of Music in October 2023, but was kidnapped at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7 along with Eliya Cohen, Or Levy and the late Hersh Goldberg-Polin.Ariel Cunio.Hostages and Missing Families ForumAriel Cunio, 28, was working as a software tester and shares a love of astronomy with his partner, Arbel Yehud, who grew up with him in kibbutz Nir Oz. He and Yehud were kidnapped together, but she was released in January under a previous ceasefire deal. His brother David Cunio was also kidnapped Oct. 7 and released Monday.David Cunio.Hostages and Missing Families ForumDavid Cunio, 35, is the older brother of Ariel Cunio and worked as an electrical technician. On Oct. 7, he held the safe room door in the family home for five hours while attackers tried to open it. His wife, Sharon Cunio, and their two daughters were also kidnapped but were released after 52 days in captivity.Avinatan Or.Hostages and Missing Families ForumAvinatan Or, 32, was born and raised in Shiloh before moving to Tel Aviv, where he worked for Nvidia. He was kidnapped from the Nova music festival along with his girlfriend, Noa Argamani, who was rescued in a military operation in June 2024. Bar Kupershtein.Hostages and Missing Families ForumBar Kupershtein, 23, was a staff member at the Nova music festival. A combat medic, he was helping victims of the Oct. 7 attack before being abducted himself. Kupershtein had taken on a greater role in his family after a 2019 accident left his father, Tal Kupershtein, unable to move or speak. Since his son’s abduction, Tal Kupershtein has been undergoing speech therapy and regained some ability to speak to aid the fight for his return.Eitan Avraham Mor.Hostages and Missing Families ForumEitan Avraham Mor, 25, worked at a coffee shop in Jerusalem and was also on the security team at the Nova music festival, where he was said to have helped evacuate wounded people before he was abducted. He is the oldest of seven siblings. Eitan Horn.Hostages and Missing Families ForumEitan Horn, 39, immigrated to Israel from Argentina as a teenager and worked in education. On Oct. 7, Horn was visiting his brother Yair Horn in kibbutz Nir Oz, where they were both kidnapped from his home. They were held together until Yair Horn’s release in February.Elkana Bohbot.Hostages and Missing Families ForumElkana Bohbot, 36, was one of the organizers of the Nova music festival, and was helping to evacuate the wounded when he was abducted. His family expressed concern for his health in May after he appeared in a video circulated by Hamas. “Everything is fine, relax,” he told his cheering family in a call ahead of his release Monday.Evyatar David.Hostages and Missing Families ForumEvyatar David, 24, was abducted from the Nova music festival along with his friend Guy Gilboa-Dalal, who was also released Monday. His brother, Ilay David, described him to NBC News as a “brilliant guitar player” with the “kindest soul I know.” Video of an emaciated David drew an international outcry when it was released by Hamas during the summer.Gali Berman.Hostages and Missing Families ForumZiv Berman.Hostages and Missing Families ForumGali and Ziv Berman, 28, are twins and avid soccer fans who worked together in kibbutz Kfar Aza, where they grew up. They were kidnapped from the kibbutz along with their friend Emily Damari, who was released in January. Guy Gilboa-Dalal.Hostages and Missing Families ForumGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 24, was seen with Alon Ohel in a video released last month by Hamas. From a young age, Gilboa-Dalal has admired Japanese culture and anime, even studying the language. Outside of Japanese culture, he enjoys music and attended the Nova festival, where he was kidnapped along with his friend Evyatar David. His brother Gal Gilboa-Dalal, was also at the festival and survived. Maksym Harkin.Hostages and Missing Families ForumMaksym Harkin, 37, immigrated to Israel from Ukraine with his family. He is the son of a single mother who describes him as the anchor of the family. Although he doesn’t often go to parties, Harkin attended the Nova music festival with friends, two of whom were killed, and he was kidnapped to Gaza. Matan Angrest.Hostages and Missing Families ForumMatan Angrest, 22, an Israel Defense Forces soldier, was kidnapped from his tank while defending the Nahal Oz base. Earlier this year, his family released video of his capture in an effort to draw attention to his case amid concerns about his health.Matan Zangauker.Hostages and Missing Families ForumMatan Zangauker, 25, was abducted from kibbutz Nir Oz along with his girlfriend, Ilana Gritzewsky. She was freed during the first ceasefire in November 2023 and has since been fighting for his release.Nimrod Cohen.Hostages and Missing Families ForumNimrod Cohen, 21, an IDF soldier, was abducted while defending kibbutz Nirim. The three other soldiers in his tank crew were killed. Cohen is known to love solving Rubik’s cubes, and after his abduction his burned Rubik’s cube was found in the tank.Omri Miran.Hostages and Missing Families ForumOmri Miran, 47, a shiatsu therapist and gardener, was kidnapped from the safe room of his home in kibbutz Nahal Oz in front of his wife, Lishay Miran, and two young daughters, one of whom was only 6 months old at the time. Rom Braslavski.Hostages and Missing Families ForumRom Braslavski, 21, is from Jerusalem and was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival. In a video released in August by Hamas ally Palestinian Islamic Jihad, he appeared weak and thin. “The faith and strength I saw in his eyes back then have been replaced by sadness, depression and helplessness,” said former hostage Sasha Troufanov, who was held with Braslavski before being released in February.Segev Kalfon.Hostages and Missing Families ForumSegev Kalfon, 27, was abducted while trying to flee the attack on the Nova music festival. According to The Jerusalem Post, his family only learned he was still alive in February.Yosef-Chaim Ohana.Hostages and Missing Families ForumYosef-Chaim Ohana, 25, was abducted while trying to flee the attack on the Nova music festival with a friend. In May, he appeared in a video published by Hamas with fellow hostage Elkana Bohbot.Jay GanglaniJay Ganglani is NBC News’s 2025-26 Asia Desk Fellow. Previously he was an NBC News Asia Desk intern and a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist who has contributed to news publications such as CNN, Fortune and the South China Morning Post.
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Nov. 5, 2025, 6:07 PM ESTBy Michael KosnarA federal judge blasted Justice Department prosecutors on Wednesday several times for what he described as an “indict first, investigate later” attitude in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey.Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick voiced his concerns at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria about how prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia were handling evidence against Comey, who was indicted in September on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstructing a congressional proceeding stemming from his testimony on Sept. 30, 2020, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.Comey, who was indicted after President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi in a social media post to charge Comey and other longtime enemies, has pleaded not guilty. Ahead of a trial scheduled for Jan. 5, his attorneys have argued that the case should be dismissed on the basis that it is a vindictive prosecution brought at the behest of Trump. They are also challenging interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as U.S. attorney, calling it “unlawful.”On Wednesday, Fitzpatrick expressed particular concern about information that was obtained through search warrants from a previous FBI investigation. He appeared frustrated and said this was not a “traditional case” and that “the procedural posture of this case is highly unusual.”Fitzpatrick chastised prosecutors, saying, the “indict first investigate later” strategy they employed “creates procedural challenges.”The hearing lasted just under an hour.Lindsey Halligan in the Oval Office of the White House on March 6,.Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileFitzpatrick ordered prosecutors to produce, by the end of the day on Thursday, all grand jury transcripts and materials from the current prosecution as well as evidence that FBI agents seized during a prior leak investigation in 2019 and 2020.Comey’s attorneys said they are at a disadvantage because they have not received access to the information that was collected back then as part of an investigation into FBI media leaks known as “Arctic Haze.”Four search warrants targeted Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor who was an “FBI special government employee” and a close friend and onetime attorney for Comey. He has been revealed to be “person 3” in the Comey indictment.The indictment alleges that Comey told Richman to leak information to reporters and therefore he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he denied having authorized any media leaks.But Comey’s lawyers say he was not referring to Richman at the time, and that he thought he was responding to a question about former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.Comey’s lawyers told the judge they had not been able to review the materials and data seized from Richman’s electronic devices, so they don’t know if any of it contained privileged information from back in 2019 and 2020, when Richman served as Comey’s personal attorney.“We’re going to fix that, and we’re going to fix that today,” Fitzpatrick said, questioning whether privileged information had been used to secure the indictment against Comey as well as in subsequent court filings.Nathaniel Lemons, an assistant U.S. attorney brought in from North Carolina to prosecute the case against Comey, said investigators reviewing the old search warrant materials stopped the process after finding information that might fall under attorney-client privilege with Richman.Lemons said the information seized from the old search warrants has been “isolated on a desk in FBI headquarters.”Fitzpatrick said he was admittedly putting an “unfair burden” on the defense because they will not have much time to review the discovery materials once handed over by the prosecution, due to the fast track that the case is on.“The defense is gravely concerned with the government’s conduct,” said Rebekah Donaleski, one of Comey’s attorneys.Another stumbling block for Comey’s team: Defense attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said he has not been able to review classified information in the case because of a delay in getting a security clearance.Comey attended the hearing but did not speak, and sat at the defense table with his attorneys: Fitzgerald — a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois — and Donaleski — a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — who did the bulk of the talking for the defense.Comey’s wife and his son-in-law, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Troy Edwards, Jr., who resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s office after Comey’s indictment, sat in the courtroom’s first row.At the prosecution table sat Halligan, who presented the case by herself to the grand jury.Halligan, a former White House aide and former Trump attorney, was named interim U.S. attorney despite her lack of prosecutorial experience after the previous U.S. Attorney, Erik Siebert, resigned under pressure to indict Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. 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