NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Jonathan Dekel-Chen about his son, Sagui. He's an American, taken on Oct. 7, and still being held hostage in Gaza. We're following news out of Israel today.

Sagui Dekel-Chen, a dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, is one of the three Israeli hostages Hamas released over the weekend after nearly 500 days of captivity. As part of the fragile ceasefire deal ...

American-Israeli hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen embraced his wife after being apart from her for nearly 500 days in heartwarming photos and video taken Saturday following his release by Hamas.

American-Israeli hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen spent “the vast majority” of his almost 500 days in captivity not knowing that his family had survived Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack or that his ...

JERUSALEM — Sagui Dekel-Chen, an American Israeli who refurbished old buses into mobile tech classrooms for underserved children, has not met his third daughter, who was born in southern Israel ...

Sagui Dekel-Chen's third child was born following his capture by Hamas. The father of an Israeli-American man who has been held hostage by Hamas since the group's ...

Avital Dekel-Chen, the wife of released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, says in a tremulous statement at Sheba Medical Center that she can hardly believe that the love of her life, the father of her ...

The following is a transcript of an interview with Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son is being held hostage by Hamas, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that aired on Sept. 1, 2024. NANCY ...

A photo shows freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen reunited with his wife Avital after 498 days. Avital gave birth to the couple’s third daughter, Shachar, two months after Sagui was taken hostage.

The Jewish state said Sagui Dekel-Chen and Keith Siegel are on Hamas’ list of hostages to be freed in the first phase of the deal — which took effect at 11:15 a.m. local time on Sunday ...

Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, and Keith Siegel, 65, were both included on a list of 33 hostages Hamas agreed to free if the deal, revealed Wednesday, is ratified by the Israeli government when it convenes ...