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Families of hostages plan to continue public protests, calling for stronger action to secure the return of all abductees.—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025 Alon Ohel, a twenty-four-year-old pianist who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, was kept in a tunnel beneath Gaza, along with three other abductees.—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 Seven of the freed hostages have been returned to Israel, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a volunteer organization focused on the safe return of the abductees in Gaza.—Michael Collins, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025 The files came from the University of New Hampshire, which houses the archives of Barney and Betty Hill, the people widely considered to be the first alien abductees and from whose experience an entire genre was born.—Ilana Masad
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