<![CDATA[The Free Press: Hezbollah’s Hostages]]>https://www.thefp.com/s/hezbollahs-hostageshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XTc7!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cb7f208-a15c-46a8-a040-7e7a2150def9_1280x1280.pngThe Free Press: Hezbollah’s Hostageshttps://www.thefp.com/s/hezbollahs-hostagesSubstackFri, 01 May 2026 19:57:31 GMT<![CDATA[WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages Season Finale: A World Without the Terror Group]]>https://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-finalehttps://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-finaleMon, 04 Nov 2024 16:01:57 GMTThe legacy media often portrays Hezbollah’s war against Israel as a “resistance” movement. Over the past seven weeks, our Hezbollah’s Hostages series has shown the opposite: that the terror group is a tyrant in Lebanon, an occupier in Syria, a mafia cartel that trafficks in drugs and sex slaves, and the command headquarters of Iran’s imperial project in Arab lands. 

The eighth and final episode of our series brings you words of hope from a young woman in Lebanon called Nadia, who has freed herself from the oppression of Hezbollah and wishes to do the same for her people. 

If there is one thing Iran and its militias fear more than the Israeli Air Force, it is ordinary citizens like Nadia, who yearn for change and rise up to oppose their brutal rule. In Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Gaza, and Iran itself, millions of civilians know firsthand that Tehran’s brand of Islamist domination brings only war, poverty, and misery. They want a different future—but they need the world to help them forge it.

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]]><![CDATA[WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: The Lebanese Women Who Took to the Streets]]>https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-hezbollahs-hostages-lebanese-women-protest-october-17-revolutionhttps://www.thefp.com/p/watch-hezbollahs-hostages-lebanese-women-protest-october-17-revolutionSun, 27 Oct 2024 20:52:37 GMTWelcome back to Hezbollah’s Hostages, the weekly series featuring brave opponents speaking out against the terror group. Episodes One through Six exposed how this Islamist organization—a proxy of Iran that calls itself the “Party of God”—tyrannizes Lebanon and Syria. We learned how Hezbollah brainwashes children and heard from people forced to become se…

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]]><![CDATA[WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: The Brave Youth Who Took Hezbollah to Court]]>https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-hezbollahs-hostages-man-sues-hezbollah-after-beatinghttps://www.thefp.com/p/watch-hezbollahs-hostages-man-sues-hezbollah-after-beatingSun, 20 Oct 2024 21:33:11 GMTWelcome back to Hezbollah’s Hostages, the weekly animated video series spotlighting the terror group’s courageous opponents in Arab lands. Our first episodes brought you harrowing accounts of how Hezbollah brainwashes vulnerable young people and forces them into sex slavery and the drug trade. We took you inside the group’s monstrous shadow capital, and…

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]]><![CDATA[WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: A Secret Tour of ‘Hezbollahland’]]>https://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-dahiyeh-hezbollahlandhttps://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-dahiyeh-hezbollahlandMon, 14 Oct 2024 02:45:45 GMTWelcome back to Hezbollah’s Hostages, the weekly animated video series in which brave opponents of the terror group speak out. So far, we’ve heard from a Lebanese man who deserted Hezbollah on the battlefield and another who braved death for peace with Israel. We’ve also told the stories of Syrians who’ve escaped Hezbollah-run cartels of sex slavery and

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]]><![CDATA[WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: Lebanese Man Taught to Hate Israel Becomes an Advocate for Peace]]>https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-hezbollahs-hostages-lebanese-peace-advocatehttps://www.thefp.com/p/watch-hezbollahs-hostages-lebanese-peace-advocateSun, 06 Oct 2024 20:48:57 GMTWelcome back to Hezbollah’s Hostages, the weekly animated video series in which brave opponents of the terror group challenge its tyranny by speaking out. The last three episodes exposed Hezbollah’s brutal occupation of Syria—by airing testimony from one of its former fighters, and Syrian victims of its trades in sex slaves and drugs.

In today’s video we…

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]]><![CDATA[WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: A Drug Mule Tells His Story]]>https://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-drug-mule-captagon-jihadisthttps://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-drug-mule-captagon-jihadistMon, 30 Sep 2024 00:52:11 GMTWelcome back to Hezbollah’s Hostages, the weekly animated video series in which brave opponents of the terror group reveal how it tyrannizes Arab lands. Previously, an ex-Hezbollah fighter described his journey from combatant to resister, and a young woman told of her escape from sex slavery, revealing the militia’s massive human trafficking operations.

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]]><![CDATA[WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: A Former Sex Slave Tells Her Story]]>https://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-sex-slave-syria-free-presshttps://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-sex-slave-syria-free-pressSun, 22 Sep 2024 23:55:06 GMTWelcome back to Hezbollah’s Hostages, the animated video series that each week brings you the stories of brave people—in their own voices—risking their lives to resist the tyranny of the terror group in Arab lands. 

Last week’s episode, “The Combatant,” told the story of a Hezbollah fighter who became a voice of resistance. Today, we present the story of…

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]]><![CDATA[WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: A Special Series Presented by The Free Press]]>https://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-resistance-voices-israel-lebanon-iranhttps://www.thefp.com/p/hezbollahs-hostages-resistance-voices-israel-lebanon-iranMon, 16 Sep 2024 15:01:41 GMTHezbollah—meaning “Party of God”—is an ‘Islamist party, a terrorist group, an organized crime syndicate, and a proxy of Iran that for over four decades has spread destruction and death across the Middle East. Born out of the turmoil of the Lebanese civil war, it aims to eliminate Israel and undermine the West, in particular the United States. 

But Hezbol…

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