According to the terms of a cease-fire brokered by international mediators last week, Israel and Hamas would stop fighting and the militant group would return all the hostages it held — both living captives and the bodies of those who had died, totaling 48 people — in exchange for the freeing of Palestinians held by Israel, among other provisions.

The last 20 living hostages released by Hamas are beginning a difficult path to recovery that will include rebuilding a sense of control over their lives and following a carefully supervised diet.

Emotions ran high as the final 20 Israeli hostages reunited with their families on October 13th. But behind the embraces, the truth about the isolation, starvation and abuse that the hostages endured during their two years in Hamas captivity is now coming out.

Elsewhere, Gaza's Hamas-run civil defense agency says it's continuing to search through the rubble for thousands of missing Palestinians.