‘I don’t know if she’s cold or if she’s alive’: How families of Israel’s hostages are coping 100 days on

For the family and friends of the 132 remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza, the past 100 days have been an eternity. On October 7, when Hamas brought terror, horror and chaos to Israel, they seized an estimated 240 hostages and took them to the Gaza Strip. Yesterday, the agony of Israeli families deepened when Hamas said the fate of many remaining hostages had become unknown, and that some “may have been killed”.