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U.S. Woman Rescued from Palestinian Captivity in West Bank

[Jerusalem Post] Ten former IDF combat soldiers rescued a U.S. citizen and her two-and-a-half-year-old son from a Palestinian village in the Tulkarm area where they had been held captive for three years, Israel Radio revealed Wednesday. The woman, who had married a Palestinian man she met in the U.S., was prevented from leaving the house. The man's first wife and four children also live in the house. After efforts to bring about the woman's release through the PA failed, the woman's parents contacted a Jewish American man who had served in a combat unit in the IDF. He contacted friends in Israel who planned the rescue operation, gathered intelligence, and carried it out successfully on Monday. The woman and her son were transferred to the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem and left for Ohio on Tuesday. Giora, who took part in the rescue, said: "The rescue mission was planned in a similar way to operations carried out during my time in the military in a way that ensured no lives were endangered."
2009-09-16 06:00:00
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