What are the names of the ten American citizens who, per our secretary of state, are still “being held in Gaza by Hamas”? How old are they? Are they adults or children? Men or women? Retired or of working age? Do we know where they are? Have we any insight into their condition? What chance is there of their release, and, if so, what is the federal government doing to secure it?
I ask these questions less as a political writer, and more as an American citizen who has been alarmed by the subdued coverage of this crisis in the media and by the apparent lack of interest in the topic within the Biden administration. Describing the situation last week, Secretary Blinken confirmed that we’ve still “got ten unaccounted for Americans,” and, worse yet, that the U.S. government believes “that some significant number” of those “unaccounted for Americans” are “hostages” who have been captured “by Hamas.” Okay: So who are they? And what’s the plan to get them back?
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