The movement Run for Their Lives began as a small walk in California after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack led by Hamas on Israel. Two years later, its Denver and Boulder chapters have kept that momentum alive , walking every Sunday to ensure hostages taken into Gaza were never forgotten.

Now, after Hamas released the final 20 living Israeli hostages as part of a peace plan between the warring groups, co-leaders of the Colorado chapters say the news brings both joy and grief.

"I don't think anybody slept last night," said Miri Kornfeld, one of the Denver co-leaders and director of Stand With Us Colorado. "This is what we've been advocating for -- two years in the making, two years too long. The fact that we can say there are no longer living hostages in Gaza is such a sigh of

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