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Hostages detail captivity: Is the UN complicit in war crimes against Israelis?

“Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 38 JNS TV Video

The three women hostages released earlier this week have revealed that Hamas terrorists were hiding them in a “humanitarian zone” designated for displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Were U.N. workers aware of—and maybe even complicit in—war crimes against Israeli civilians?

U.S. President Donald Trump has already ordered the cessation of American financial support to UNWRA. How should the Jewish state respond, and what does this mean for the region’s future?

Join JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom—both former advisers at the Prime Minister’s Office—for this explosive conversation!

All this and more on this episode of “Israel Undiplomatic!”

Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.
Mark Regev is an Australian-Israeli diplomat, government advisor, and former ambassador. He served as Israel’s Ambassador to the UK (2016–2020) and as Senior Advisor for Foreign Affairs and International Communications to Prime Minister Netanyahu (2020–2021). Currently, he is the Chairman of the Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Relations at Reichman University. Regev co-hosts Undiplomatic on JNS TV’s YouTube channel alongside Ruthie Blum.
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