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      <description><![CDATA[President Trump’s hostage envoy reveals why he met directly with Hamas.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The former hostage said she believes the IDF military campaign "rattled" Kata'ib Hezbollah, leading them to view their captive as a liability.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Israeli-Russian expressed gratitude to those who helped secure her release after over two years of captivity in Iraq.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Israeli-Russian graduate student was freed last week after two years in Kata'ib Hezbollah captivity in Iraq.]]></description>
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      <title>Elizabeth Tsurkov arrives in Israel after two years of Iraq captivity</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“I spoke with Emma and Avital, her sisters, and during the emotional conversation I told them that all of Israel is happy to see her back home,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 38-year-old Jewish woman was kidnapped while studying for her Ph.D. dissertation.]]></description>
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      <title>Sister of abducted Elizabeth Tsurkov meets US hostage envoy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Iraqi kidnappers of the Israeli-Russian researcher “should consider what became of Hamas,” Emma Tsurkov tweets.]]></description>
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      <title>US envoy visited Iraq in bid to free Israeli-Russian academic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Tsurkov has been held captive in Iraq since March 2023 by the Iranian-backed Shi’ite militia Kata’ib Hezbollah.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iraq's national security adviser said authorities are also seeking to identify the group that kidnapped the Israeli-Russian researcher.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani "has an opportunity RIGHT NOW to show the world why he should or should not be prime minister," said U.S. Ambassador Adam Boehler.]]></description>
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