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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Hamas Hostages Remain In Captivity Two Years Later

The Fox News Rundown

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Daily News, News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It has been two years since thousands of Hamas terrorists attacked Israel and slaughtered more than 1,200 men, women, and children, and took more than 240 innocent people hostage. One of those innocent lives taken hostage and put in the dark tunnels underneath Gaza was a 3-year-old girl who watched her father be murdered. Forty-eight hostages remain in Gaza, with around twenty of them still believed to be alive. FOX’s Tonya J. Powers speaks with Liz Hirsh Naftali, hostage release advocate and author of 'Saving Abigail: The True Story of the Abduction and Rescue of a Three-Year-Old Hostage', who shares the horrific stories that her own family, and many other Israelis, have gone through since the terror attacks. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Steve Ducey. I'm Dana Perino. I'm Tyrus. And this is the Fox News rundown.

0:08.3

October 7th, 2025, I'm Tanya J. Powers. It's been two years since the Hamas attack in Israel led to the war in Gaza.

0:16.9

And while many of the hostages taken have been released, some haven't been.

0:21.7

One woman who lost members of her family in the attack has made it her mission to fight for their freedom.

0:27.5

It's just unbelievable that it's two years.

0:30.6

And while we're speaking, there's still 48 people being held hostage.

0:34.4

This is the Fox News Rundown, evening edition.

0:43.0

Two years after the deadly Hamas terror attack in Israel that left more than 1,200 dead and more than 250 taken as hostages,

0:49.1

the war in Gaza continues. Many families have been forever altered, and some people have found

0:53.8

their life's focus

0:55.0

changed by it. One of those personally touched by the tragedy began fighting to free a family

1:00.6

member, a toddler who'd been taken hostage, and she has since become a voice for those who remain

1:06.3

in the hands of Hamas. My niece and her husband were murdered in front of their three children at their home

1:12.3

on October 7th. Liz Hirschneftali is a hostage and humanitarian advocate and the author of

1:18.3

Saving Abigail, the true story of the abduction and rescue of a three-year-old hostage. So for me,

1:23.9

it's actually really chilling. And as a hostage advocate, you know, I've spent two years, Abigail, their child was then

1:32.0

taken hostage.

1:34.0

Their other two children spent 14 hours in a closet alone with their mother's dead body

1:39.7

next to them until they could be rescued.

1:42.4

And then Abigail was taken as a hostage. And so for me,

1:47.0

that day is so loaded and so awful. And I was in Israel. And I just remember being so helpless

1:54.3

and just thinking there was nothing I could do at that moment other than tell people who were

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