The Gaza Hostage Crisis Is an American Hostage Crisis
Hamas terrorists with a hostage in Gaza. (Photo by: Abed Rahim Khatib/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
If the estimates are right, this is the largest mass abduction of Americans since the Tehran embassy crisis of 1979.
This piece was first published on Tablet.
The hundreds of Hamas fighters who carried out a murderous rampage inside Israel over the weekend returned to the Gaza Strip with an invaluable new strategic asset. On Sunday, Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, told journalists that the Islamist group had captured “dozens” of hostages with A…
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