Joel Gehrke is foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Examiner, with an emphasis on U.S. competition with China and Russia, Middle East policy following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the crisis in Venezuela. Previously, he covered domestic politics for National Review Online.
A woman whose son has been taken captive by Hamas fears that he will die in Israel’s intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip, as families of the hostages plead for information from Israel’s security establishment.
“Our hostages, our people, human life is what we are defending here,” Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. Amnon Shefler replied when asked to address her concern during a question-and-answer session following their presentations. “And we're using all the different means that we have in order to achieve that goal. That is our mission. That is why we are here. That is why we're willing to sacrifice life in order to save the lives of our people and to save human morality, in that sense.
“You can see him clearly — kidnapped, beaten, humiliated, but very much alive — which made us very happy, as crazy as it sounds,” she said. “And I know that, you know, we are the lucky ones that saw him alive, saw him alive after the kidnapping. So, we don't know right now what happens. We don't get any answers from anybody.”
"It is a common tactic in the Hamas playbook to break up hostages and move them around in, sometimes, small groups,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Thursday. “In order to think about our policy options, you have to make some assumptions. And we can’t rule that out as a possibility.”
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