As of October 2024, to date, the "israeli" Occupation Forces (iOF) continue to keep 20 Lebanese citizens as hostages, tortured, and deprived of their basic human rights, all while banning the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), from reaching them.
 

To date, no one knows their fate, and the Lebanese government has failed in exerting efforts to retrieve them.

Below are the 20 Lebanese hostages:

1. Prisoner Hassan Ahmad Hammoud, born in 1985, from the southern town of Tayybeh. After the ceasefire decision was issued on January 26, 2025, he returned on January 27 to his home in Tayybeh to check on it. At five o’clock in the afternoon, a force from the occupying army raided his house and surrounded it, then arrested him, after which they burned his house completely.

2. Prisoner Ali Hassan Tarhini, the youngest Lebanese prisoner in the occupation’s prisons. Born in 2006, from the town of Jibshit. A BT3 vocational civil-education student, he was supposed to take official exams, but his arrest prevented that. He was captured on January 28, 2025, while trying to participate in the liberation of the southern town of Adaysseh from occupation forces after the ceasefire took effect. He was hit by an exploding bullet in his back that exited through his abdomen, causing severe injuries. Occupation forces did not allow ambulance teams to reach him, and they took him wounded to Ramleh Prison. According to reports from the five released prisoners in March, Ali suffers from difficulty walking and standing due to his injury.

3. Prisoner Hussein Amin Karki, born in Khabrit Salm in 1989. On January 26, 2025, the day of return to the villages and the end of the “Israeli” withdrawal deadline, Hussein headed with his mother, the martyr Tamara al-Shuheimi, and his sister toward Marwahin on foot to be the first to arrive there. The enemy received them with a barrage of bullets. Hussein was wounded in his hand and hid behind an earthen berm until the shooting stopped. But as soon as it stopped and he tried to move back, enemy soldiers had reached the berm and fired directly at him and his family. His mother was martyred instantly before his eyes, while he was unable to move to help her. Then he was struck by a second bullet in his back, fell to the ground, and was taken prisoner. There is no news about the wounded prisoner Hussein Karki or his health condition, and even the five Lebanese released prisoners did not see him in March.

4. Prisoner Ali Muhammad Fneish, born in 1990, from Maaroub. He was captured on June 4, 2025, from the sea of Naqoura while fishing, right in front of the Lebanese security agencies.

5. Prisoner Youssef Moussa Abdullah, born in 1986, from al-Babliyyeh. He was captured in October 2024 in Aita al-Shaab while defending his land and his homeland.

6. Prisoner Muhammad Abdul-Karim Jawad, born in 1994, from Aita. He works as a nurse at Jwayya Charitable Hospital. He remained committed to his humanitarian work in his hometown of Aita and refused to leave during the Battle of the First Fierce Attack, preferring to serve those among the fighters who needed assistance. He was captured in October 2024.

7. Prisoner Maher Fares Hamdan, born in 1994, from Shebaa. The enemy kidnapped him while he was herding his flock on the land of Mount Hermon on June 7, 2025.

8. Prisoner Muhammad Ali Juhair, born in 1991, from Naqoura. He was captured from the sea of Naqoura on February 2, 2025.

9. Prisoner Ibrahim Muneef al-Khalil, born in 1990, from Aita al-Shaab. He was captured on October 15, 2024, while defending the land and the homeland.

10. Prisoner Hassan Aqil Jawad, born in 1987. He was captured in Aita al-Shaab on October 15, 2024, while defending the land and the homeland.

11. Captain Imad Fadel Amhaz, born in al-Kawakh in the Beqaa, 1986. He had one academic year left at the Maritime Sciences Academy in Batroun, where he was undergoing training. He was captured there in November 2024 during an airdrop operation carried out by an “Israeli” commando force in front of UNIFIL forces stationed at sea.

12. Prisoner Hadi Mustafa Assaf, born in 1990, from al-Diabiyeh, residing in the Qaa Projects area. He was captured in the town of Aita al-Shaab while defending the land and the homeland.

13. Prisoner Murtada Hassan Mhana, born in 1983, from Maroun al-Ras. An employee at the Maroun al-Ras municipality. He returned to his home located on the outskirts of Bint Jbeil from the Maroun al-Ras side, only to be surprised by an enemy infantry patrol storming his house and capturing him on February 16, 2025. Traces of blood were found inside the house, and his fate remains unknown until now.

14. Prisoner Hussein Ali Sharif, born in 1990, from al-Yamouneh. He was captured in Aita al-Shaab in October 2024 while defending the land and the homeland.

15. Prisoner Abdullah Khoder Fahdeh, born in 2002, from al-Qasr. He was captured on October 9, 2024, while defending the land and the homeland.

16. Prisoner Ali Qassem Assaf, born in 1999, from Hermel. He was captured in Aita al-Shaab in October 2024 while defending the land and the homeland.

17 & 18. Prisoner Ali Nasser Younes, born in 1992, from Hermel, resident of Beirut, works in aluminum installation; and prisoner Fouad Habib Qattaya, born in 1982, from Hermel, works in aluminum and wood. After the ceasefire decision was issued, Ali Nasser and his uncle Fouad Qattaya began taking on workshops to install aluminum in homes damaged by Zionist shelling in the south. On December 19, 2024, they headed to take over a worksite in the southern town of Shaqra, where an occupation army force intercepted them in Wadi al-Hujeir and captured them on the spot.

19. Prisoner Waddah Kamel Younes, born in 1971, from Houla. He was captured on October 13, 2024, in the town of Blida while defending the land and the homeland.

20. Prisoner Hassan Kashkoush, from Qaaqaiyet Al Jisr, a southern Lebanese town in Nabatiyeh district, who was detained by the israeli occupation last year's October while defending his