Tel Aviv: Their faces stare down from every street corner in Israel on posters now sun-faded and ripped. Their stories, told by anguished family members, are almost as well known as celebrities. They are civilians and soldiers, fathers and sons. Some were at the Nova music festival, where almost 400 people were killed and dozens kidnapped. Now they are coming home.

As dawn broke over the Middle East this morning, there were 48 hostages still held in Gaza, including the body of one soldier from a previous war.

Israelis celebrate as a convoy carrying the hostages released from the Gaza Strip arrives at a military base in Israel on Monday. Credit: AP

Israel has determined that at least 25 of the hostages taken on October 7, 2023, were killed on that day, or died in captivity. That lea

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