When Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists returned to Gaza after their Oct. 7 rampage across southern Israel, they took approximately 250 hostages with them. Dozens of hostages were released as part of a short-lived truce, but an estimated 133 people remain in captivity, including eight of the 11 Americans seized that day. Three of those people — a married couple, Gad Haggai and Judy Weinstein, and Itay Chen — were killed on Oct. 7 and taken into Gaza.  Another five U.S. citizens remain alive in Hamas’s custody, according to the latest available information. Here are their stories. Keith Siegel, 65 Keith Siegel, 65 (Illustration by Jason Seiler) Keith Siegel set out for Israel in 1980, following his older brother Lee, who had moved to a kibbutz in central Israel four years earlier as a young member of the Labor Zionist movement. Their father, Earl, was the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, born in 1924 and raised to dream of the founding of an independent Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine — a vision made real by the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Earl Siegel, who embarked on a medical career with the U.S. Navy before taking a professorship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, passed that devoted Zionism to his children. “We were a politically informed family. Social justice was very important to my parents, and they instilled that in us — along with the...