Palestinian militants kidnapped scores of Israelis in an unprecedented attack that took the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into unknown territory. Their relatives recount how they were captured.
As the UN begged Israel and Hamas to stop targeting civilians, fears were growing for thousands of people, including women and children, caught up in the bitter conflict
Israeli family's nightmare as hostages in Gaza after a border incident. Trapped by Palestinian militants, they face an uncertain fate in this terrifying ordeal
Yoni Asher last spoke to his wife on Saturday morning, when she called from her mother's home in southern Israel near the Gaza border. "She told me terrorists had infiltrated the home," he said. "The phone got disconnected."