More Than 500 Americans Held Hostage in Gaza

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More Than 500 Americans Held Hostage in Gaza

And some cry for Humanitarian aid?

More than 500 Americans and their family members are trapped in Gaza, unable to get home because Hamas authorities are denying them free exit, according to multiple reports.

During an appearance that day before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: "We're working on this every single day. We have about 400 American citizens and their family members, so it's roughly 1,000 people who are stuck in Gaza and want to get out."

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/americans-gaza-trapped/2023/11/01/id/1140537/
 
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Newsmax reports more than 500, Forbes reports less.

The fact that Hamas holds hostages is a war crime.

Congresswoman Tlaib and other Democrats support Hamas, who slaughtered innocent Israelis in their homes.

At least 1,400 people in Israel were killed during the coordinated terror attacks by Hamas on October 7, including both Israelis and foreign nationals. Many were beheaded, burned alive in chains and cages. Hostages were taken.
 
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"18 U.S.C. § 1203 EXPLAINED
A hostage taker is described in 18 U.S.C. 1203 as anyone who "seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person to compel a third person or a governmental organization to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the person detained, or attempts or conspires to do so..."

The law was enacted in 1984 to adopt the International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages. It specifies when the U.S. government has jurisdiction over hostage-taking inside and outside the U.S. However, 18 U.S.C. 1203 also defines what the law does not cover. Some of the specifics:

The law is written to apply primarily to hostage situations outside the U.S. or situations in which the hostage taker tries to compel a government organization to action. The U.S. claims jurisdiction outside the U.S. if:

The hostage taker is a U.S. national;
The hostage taker is captured in the U.S., OR
The U.S. is the government that was compelled by the hostage situation.
The law typically does not apply to hostage situations by U.S. nationals on American soil unless the U.S. is the government being compelled."

https://www.thefederalcriminalattor...18 U.S. Code § 1203 - Hostage Taking Law,1203.
 
One can point fingers at Egypt, but ultimately, the Hamas gov't is the root cause of the Rafah Crossing being closed.
 
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serendipity said:
Oh dear it may be only 200 so that's all right then. Fanlight Phanny the frowsy night club queen strikes again.
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If it were only one and Phanny was the one held in a tunnel under Gaza by barbarians who cut the breasts off women, burn alive and behead infants, one would think that the exact numbers which will probably never be known...would not be the immediate concern.
 
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Phantasmal said:
[h=1]Viral Claim Hamas Holding 500 Americans Hostage In Gaza Isn’t True[/h]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/10/31/viral-claim-hamas-holding-500-americans-hostages-in-gaza-isnt-true/amp/
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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bli...erican,the Senate Committee on Appropriations. If they can't leave they're pretty much hostages aren't they? The estimate says 400 families so possibly a thousand people want to leave but can't.... that says Hostage to me doesn't it to you?
 
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You could have just posted, “I am too stupid to understand that the exact number of hostages will never be known and the fact that Hamas has committed war crimes in Israel and now in Gaza by taking hostages, no martter the number.
 
Earl said:
You could have just posted, “I am too stupid to understand that the exact number of hostages will never be known and the fact that Hamas has committed war crimes in Israel and now in Gaza by taking hostages, no matter the number.
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Or just say until all hostages are released and all Americans are home there is an incredible concern for their safety and well-being...be it one or one thousand ..
 
One wonders if anyone else remembers the hostage crisis failure of Jimmy Carter?


I do, the president from my state lost a second term because of his inability to bring home the hostages.
 
Earl said:
More Than 500 Americans Held Hostage in Gaza

And some cry for Humanitarian aid?

More than 500 Americans and their family members are trapped in Gaza, unable to get home because Hamas authorities are denying them free exit, according to multiple reports.

During an appearance that day before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: "We're working on this every single day. We have about 400 American citizens and their family members, so it's roughly 1,000 people who are stuck in Gaza and want to get out."

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/americans-gaza-trapped/2023/11/01/id/1140537/
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What they're not telling you is that 99% of them are dual citizenship Palestinians. IMO, it's probably better for America if they stay there.
 
Matt Dillon said:
What they're not telling you is that 99% of them are dual citizenship Palestinians. IMO, it's probably better for America if they stay there.
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Indeed.

The dual citizenship Palestinians who selected Hamas to represent their government are supporters of terrorism. Why would we want them in America.

The new Hamas leader just said that they will repeat their barbarism against Israeli men, women and infants.
 
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