Jack Carr’s take on the events of April 24, 1980, nearly 6 months into the Iran hostage crisis
On November 4, 1979, over 300 Iranians stormed the American embassy in Tehran, Iran, and took 66 Americans hostage. The embassy was attacked and occupied in February of the same year, but was soon returned to U.S. control. Rising from the chaos of the Iranian revolution, Iranians loyal to Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini held 52 Americans […]
Terry Anderson, reporter held hostage in Lebanon for 7 years, dead at 76
LOS ANGELES — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who was kidnapped on the streets of war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, making him America’s longest-serving hostage, has died at age 76. did. Mr. Anderson, whose best-selling 1993 memoir “The Lion’s Den” chronicled his abduction, torture and imprisonment by Islamic […]
Israeli artist, curators refuse to open exhibit until cease-fire, hostage deal is reached
Artists and their curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale in Italy will not open their Israeli pavilion on Tuesday until a ceasefire and hostage agreement is reached in the months-long war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. announced. A sign posted in the window of the Israel Pavilion on Tuesday said […]
GOP Blasts Schumer for Holding Israel Aid ‘Hostage’ to ‘Petty Politics’ While Professing Support for Jewish State
Republican officials recently attacked Israel’s leadership from the floor of the U.S. Senate, saying they “stand with Israel” even as he continues to hold aid to Israel “hostage” to his “petty politics.” He harshly criticizes the top Democratic senator, Chuck Schumer (New York), for making this claim. ” “As Israel comes under attack from Iran, […]
Netanyahu rival offers to help quell mutiny for Hamas hostage deal
A top rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to back the beleaguered leader in the event that his government begins to collapse over a hard-right mutiny against a hostage deal with Hamas. “So a hostage deal is doable. It is a difficult deal. This is a deal we might not like, but […]
Israeli Commandos Retrieve Body of Murdered Hostage Elad Katzir in Gaza Raid
Israeli special forces have discovered and recovered the body of Elad Katsir, 47, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, who was killed in Gaza by Palestinian Islamic Jihad prisoners. Maya Parti (left) comforts Efrat Machikawa, whose relative has been held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since being captured from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October […]
Israel Recovers Body Of Hostage In Gaza Who Was Previously Seen Alive On Propaganda Video
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday that the body of an Israeli hostage had been taken in the Gaza Strip. Elad Katsir was first abducted in a Hamas terrorist attack on October 7. claimed Approximately 1,200 people, including his mother Hanna, were killed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. according to To the […]
Body of Israeli hostage retrieved overnight during IDF operation in Gaza
The body of another Israeli hostage was recovered from the Gaza Strip and returned to Israel on Friday night. “The body recovery operation started at 8pm (last night) and lasted for several hours, during which the bodies were exhumed from underground in a compound south of Khan Younes,” a military official told Fox News Jerusalem. […]
American Reporter Evan Gershkovich Marks One Year as Russian Hostage
Evan Gershkovich is an American citizen; wall street journal The (WSJ) reporter who was kidnapped by Russia’s Vladimir Putin regime in March 2023 marked one year since his captivity on Friday, March 29th. Mr. Gershkovych was arrested in Yekaterinburg last year on highly questionable espionage charges and has been detained without trial or evidence ever […]
NPR Questions Freed Israeli Hostage About Mission that Freed Him Killing Civilians, Cites Hamas’ Numbers
In an interview published Thursday, NPR international correspondent Daniel Estrin spoke to Louis Herr, an Israeli who was taken hostage by Hamas in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, about airstrikes in the Gaza Strip run by Hamas. I asked about the Ministry of Health’s claim that the Israeli military initiated the attack in conjunction with […]