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Hostages: Created by Alon Aranya, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Omri Givon, Rotem Shamir. With Toni Collette, Tate Donovan, Rhys Coiro, Sandrine Holt. A premiere surgeon is blackmailed in a plot to assassinate the president after her family is taken hostage by a rogue federal agent.
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hostage: [noun] a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement. a person taken by force to secure the taker's demands.
Nov 20, 2023 · When Hamas released the first hostages on Oct. 20 — Judith Raanan, 59, and her daughter, Natalie Raanan, 17 — it said it was freeing them for “humanitarian reasons” but did not elaborate ...
Terrorism. A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized—such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government —to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm or death ...
Dec 20, 2023 · Of the 129 people that Israel says are still be held hostage, 21 are believed to be dead. Israel counts the dead in its total hostage figures. Most of the remaining hostages are men, but the prime ...
Oct 25, 2023 · An Israeli hostage released by Hamas has described her ordeal after she was kidnapped by gunmen and taken into a tunnel system in Gaza during the Palestinian militant group’s deadly assault in ...
hostages carries the highest casualty rate, probably for two interrelated reasons. First, the very fact that tactical inter-vention is necessary indicates that all reasonable attempts to resolve the crisis by negotiation have failed, and that vio-lence against the hostages has already taken place or is immi-nent.
